Celebrate Black Teachers and Students
This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
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Ms. Kohr from Philadelphia PA is requesting computers & tablets through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.
Help me give my students a Lenovo Chromebook to be able to complete their Literacy and Math intervention programs.
This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
My students are energetic, fun-loving, eager second graders who look forward to coming to school every day. My students face many challenges such as disabilities, lack of supplies, and language barriers because their native language is not English, but despite these challenges, they are eager and ready to learn.
Every day, I strive to meet their various needs in any way that I can.
I try to create an engaging and peaceful work environment so their minds can soar! By making sure they have what they need to be academically successful, safe, healthy, and secure, I am helping them to be as productive as possible.
My students live in a low-income, inner-city neighborhood and they have struggles at home. It is my job to make sure they are able to accomplish what they wish to in school. One of my goals, as a teacher, is to provide things that my children are lacking and to create a positive learning environment. My students love to experience new things and visit new places, such as the many field trips that I take them on. I also try to keep their bellies full and their minds open to learning new things.
In my classroom, I have students with varying reading levels that need extra support. One way that I do this is by having technology in my classroom that my students can use to complete their Lexia intervention. Lexia is an online program that my school uses for literacy intervention. What is great about Lexia is that their program is individualized based on how well they are answering questions and activities in their lessons. If the student is not passing the level, they will give different activities and other lessons to help the students master the skills. Another online program that will help them with reading is Raz-Kids. Raz-Kids is a site that I set up and give them access to a wide variety of books on their individual reading levels. They read stories to them and also make sure that they take a quiz after reading every book. My students will also use Zearn as an intervention program to improve their math skills. Zearn is a program that helps to build fluency by giving problems in a variety of ways and helps them to learn their facts.
With 25 students in my classroom, it becomes difficult to get everyone on technology and to meet their weekly goals.
Most of my students have 60-minute goals but others have a goal of 80 minutes for Lexia. My whole class will also use Zearn on a daily basis for at least 20 minutes each. I would like to have more technology in my classroom so it is easier for me to meet their needs. My goal by the end of the year is to help all of my students increase their reading levels and to help them increase their Math fluency.
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