My students are creative, hilarious, and endearingly hopeful children who, as English new language learners, do not hear the English language beyond our school. Their parents do not have the language skills to ask them questions about their learning or reinforce lessons learned in school. In order to truly differentiate my teaching and address all the needs of my students, I want to reach the widest range of interests. My students are eager and curious children who enjoy learning. I teach at a Title I school, meaning that nearly all of our students live below the nation-wide poverty line. Beyond the classroom, my students rarely interact with English texts. These new resources would excite the students' naturally inquisitive minds and motivate them to explore topics beyond my explicit teachings.
My Project
I am requesting 2 iPads for my Bilingual ENL and students with special needs classroom, to be used in math stations. We currently have an older iPad 3 that struggles to run the math apps. I would like to add two more iPads so more students can join the station. My students are from low income families who do not get to use modern technology to learn, let alone to play. I would like to create situations during math time where students can rotate and use an exciting 4th grade/5th grade math app on the iPad to practice and improve their skills such as, computing with different operations, fractions, measurement, geometry, and word problems.
Nothing beats learning math in a FUN and INTERACTIVE way like using technology in the classroom.
These iPads will make a huge difference in creating many new and engaging ways to learn math while giving my students a chance to interact with technology they rarely get to use.
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