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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Mr. Porteous from Atlanta GA is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.
Help me give my students the ability to use their text-to-speech on the many platforms we use to ensure maximum comprehension.
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.
This project is to ensure that students have access to headphones with microphones. The students will use these headphones in multiple classes including mathematics, English language arts, social studies, and science. Our students use different platforms such as Readworks and Discovery Education in English language arts, social studies, and science. We use these websites to maximize engagement because they allow for differentiation. Also, both of these learning websites have options for the texts to be read aloud. In math class, websites such as iReady, Khan Academy, and Freckle are used regularly. These websites allow for differentiation and also read texts aloud and play videos. The headphones allow students to hear what is being mentioned on any of these learning platforms. Unfortunately, we do not have enough headphones to ensure all my students have access to hear the videos and listen to the passages clearly.
These headphones will maximize engagement, thusly heightening growth sharply.
Many of my students will benefit greatly from having access to headphones. In addition, due to COVID, many of my students are quarantined for weeks at a time. Therefore, I teach hybrid lessons via Zoom. In addition, having a speaker will allow for more engagement for whole-class teaching. Our current speaker does not work. We do not have the ability to play educational content or watch movies due to not having a speaker. This Bose speaker will boost engagement and thusly maximize success.
In sum, my students will be able to score better on these platforms with headphones allowing them to hear the audio much clearer.
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