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It never ceases to amaze me just how tactile my students are, whether it's a first grade group or a fifth grade group, or anything in between. *Tell* them something and their eyes glaze over. But give them a colored marker and it's All Systems Go. The colors absolutely help them see relationships and contrasts. For example , they choose colors to keep track of traits in a Character Analysis chart: Pat's traits are blue. Ron's are red.. Hey look! Pat's lazy! Ron's not! Look at all this blue evidence! Pat sleeps late! Doesn't pick up her stuff! Ron does! Look at all that red evidence! Hey! We could put that on a Venn Diagram! Ms. Hobson, can we have a Green and Blue marker, we're gonna do a contrast chart... Now about the headphones. As mentioned earlier, our class has recently come into posession of a 6-pack tub of chromebooks, much to their delight. At last they can work a challenging individual reading assignment (they like challenges) on their own level without having to wait for or keep up with anybody else in class.But here's the catch. Our classroom is TINY. Apparently it was designed as a small one person office . But here we are, six or seven groups of kids a day, all grade levels, all crammed around a rickety horseshoe table in this tiny little room. So EVERYTHING is a distraction--the hallway noise, chairs rattling, the kid next to you subvocalizing---in short, for the nice new chromebooks to enhance their learning experience, they need headphones so they can focus. These kids are already lagging behind in their regular classroom, grappling with English , they don't get much support at home, and they need all the help they can get.

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It never ceases to amaze me just how tactile my students are, whether it's a first grade group or a fifth grade group, or anything in between. *Tell* them something and their eyes glaze over. But give them a colored marker and it's All Systems Go. The colors absolutely help them see relationships and contrasts. For example , they choose colors to keep track of traits in a Character Analysis chart: Pat's traits are blue. Ron's are red.. Hey look! Pat's lazy! Ron's not! Look at all this blue evidence! Pat sleeps late! Doesn't pick up her stuff! Ron does! Look at all that red evidence! Hey! We could put that on a Venn Diagram! Ms. Hobson, can we have a Green and Blue marker, we're gonna do a contrast chart... Now about the headphones. As mentioned earlier, our class has recently come into posession of a 6-pack tub of chromebooks, much to their delight. At last they can work a challenging individual reading assignment (they like challenges) on their own level without having to wait for or keep up with anybody else in class.But here's the catch. Our classroom is TINY. Apparently it was designed as a small one person office . But here we are, six or seven groups of kids a day, all grade levels, all crammed around a rickety horseshoe table in this tiny little room. So EVERYTHING is a distraction--the hallway noise, chairs rattling, the kid next to you subvocalizing---in short, for the nice new chromebooks to enhance their learning experience, they need headphones so they can focus. These kids are already lagging behind in their regular classroom, grappling with English , they don't get much support at home, and they need all the help they can get.

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