While cursive isn’t required in classrooms nationwide, for Jordan Montalvo, this is a skill essential for life. She’s making sure the sixth graders in her English language arts class master the skill.
) - While cursive isn’t required in classrooms nationwide, for Jordan Montalvo , this is a skill essential for life. She’s making sure the sixth graders in her English language arts class master the skill.
Montalvo has been teaching for nine years and is in her third year at Reeltown High School. She said penmanship and cursive are not just extras but necessary skills. “I see some people—you go to sign on a car, you go to sign on a house—and you’re writing your name in chicken scratch,” Montalvo said. “It’s important to have a signature, and a signature style.” Montalvo started her teaching career in third grade at Wilson Elementary in Montgomery before moving to first grade at Reeltown Elementary School. She said she will see some of her former first graders return as sixth graders next year! “It’s so wild to see how they’ve grown,” she said. “First, I was teaching them how to write, and now they’re reading whole books.” Growing up in nearby Tallassee, Montalvo said she never imagined she would teach at Reeltown because of the rivalry between the two towns. “The rivalry in Tallassee—so I was always like, ‘No, no, no… it’s not going to be Reeltown,’” she said. “But I was seeing they were doing so many good things, and I think it’s the best thing ever.” Montalvo, a mother of two boys in second grade and pre-K, attended Auburn University at Montgomery and the University of West Alabama. She said teaching sixth grade allows her to dive deeper into English language arts and literature. “When we get into sixth grade and higher ELA, you get to really dig into it,” she said. “You get to read novels in the sixth grade.”“Sixth graders definitely keep it interesting,” Montalvo said. “They will tell you all about themselves, and all about yourself. It’s definitely entertaining.” Over the years, she’s been able to form a relationship with many of her middle school students. She said she wants to be more than a teacher to her students—by helping them make their make in the world. “I want to be someone who listens, someone they can talk to,” she said. “I so desperately want to be that for these kids.”
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