COURT HOUSE – Although they are just finishing up the fifth grade, a handful of Middle Township students just wrapped up a curriculum that included surgical simulation used to train real-life surgeons.
According to a release, the Middle Township School District (MTSD) recently completed the Stealth Learning Initiative with the help of the Stealth Learning Company CEO, Dr. James “Butch” Rosser.
The district celebrated this with the presentation of awards to students and teachers who participated.
Rosser distributed awards to each participant and thanked them and their families for all of their hard work and their devotion to the program. After the award ceremony, parents were invited to participate in some of the activities that their children worked on each week, including video games, surgery simulators, and drones.
“Parents should be so proud of their children. They are all so special. Their performance was unbelievable. Most people can’t believe that these kids were actually doing simulated surgical drills just like real surgeons do,” stated Rosser.
Stealth Learning uses rap music, cinema, video games, drones and more aspects of pop culture to speed students’ acquisition of STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine) skills and knowledge. Rosser’s curriculum first successfully improved the standardized testing scores of Florida students. In October 2017, with a $100,000 grant awarded to Concerned Citizens of Whitesboro and coordinated by O.C.E.A.N. Inc., he partnered with MTSD to replicate his methods for a group of fifth-grade students.
The students met for 10 sessions after school at the Whitesboro Grammar School before beginning PARCC testing.
At the beginning of the year, Rosser trained a group of teachers from throughout the district and high school students who would then use what they learned to teach fifth-graders different Stealth Learning techniques.
“My favorite part of the program was learning a lot of different things that I didn’t know I could learn before. I got to fly a drone, which was a lot of fun. The program also really got me more into science. It was a lot of work, but I really liked what I was able to learn,” stated fifth-grader Savannah Hill.
The best part about the Stealth Learning Initiative for the teachers was the opportunity to become students again and learn alongside the high school students.
“Working with the high school students was awesome. I can’t say enough good things about them. They were here every week and learned the ins and outs of the program very quickly. We relied heavily on them throughout the process,” stated Middle Township Middle School aide Debbie Avicoli.
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