Terms of use agreement Best viewed with Netscape Communicator . After completing her 14th year of teaching in the same classroom at Longfellow Elementary, Deb Ammons still finds the basic needs of her students today are the same as they were the first year she taught. All students really want, she says, is to know they're cared for and loved. Children know when you care about them. What has changed is the amount of pressure the environment and society puts on them.
Adults have a greater and different responsibility to minister to the needs of our children.
Because she cares about each student, Ammons finds it's easy to bring out their best qualities. She spends numerous hours after school preparing, planning, organizing and keeping records so her days in the classroom go smoothly. Longfellow Elementary School teacher Deb Ammons helps student Kayleigh Barrett with a project. Ammons is the first to admit that she can't be successful without the help of parents. When parents and teachers work together, there's 100 percent success for the child.