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
My freshman through senior high school students are faced with demanding, challenging peer pressure, testing, and competitive driven environments that make them feel stressed, frustrated, or inadequate as learners. As a caring, purposeful teacher with a charismatic approach, it is my duty to help my students thrive, rise to the challenge, succeed, and unlock their opportunities to become unlimited and foster their future lives to be positively molded forever.
My students are from low-income, poverty-stricken, and crime-infested communities, faced with data-driven tests, projections and stereotypes that are not one size fits all or indicators of their character, success or learning styles and lack the resources to compete in today's global society.
They are challenged daily with expectations yet cultivated with a positive mindset that they will become proficient in their academic and extracurricular skills regardless of their circumstances, past learning experiences, or attitudes towards school. Some are overwhelmed, afraid, nervous, and downright angered when faced with a challenge and expectation to become the best scholars and competitors they can be.
They are embracing positive mindsets and challenging/fostering each other to do their best. They want to capture this spark school-wide by having the technology needed for daily success!
My Project
Imagine students having a successful mindset, eagerness to learn and achieve but lacking the necessary resources within their classroom to compete against other mathematics scholars nationwide. Often times we are attempting to utilize all of the instructional technology embedded lessons available to us but have limited technology.
With Google Chromebooks, my students will have the opportunity to complete lessons online and receive immediate feedback on their strengths and weaknesses, which is one of my goals as an instructional technology implementer within my classroom.
Students have Google accounts district-wide, therefore the Chromebooks will serve as a mobile computing lab for them to have access to technology at school and home. Students would also have the opportunity to complete a variety of assessments online and help reduce the amount of paper used within the school year.
Students love the resources that are modeled to them to use and implement to foster success within their mathematical journey in Algebra 1. As one of the lowest-performing high schools within one of the lowest-performing districts within our state, this additional resource will assist in helping students learn with their vastly different learning styles and achieve to help promote our school and district. As a teacher, I will be able to effectively differentiate instruction to reach all of my learners. The Chromebooks will help students learn how to use technology appropriately through the implementation of digital citizenship units that I have designed within my course. Some of the resources that we use and seek to use that will be implemented with the Chromebooks are Canvas, Schoology, Google Classroom, Microsoft OneNote, Flocabulary, Kahoot, Khan Academy, Pearson Education suite for Mathematics, Khan Academy, Smart Education suite, and Algebra Nation to name a few.
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