Our special education students benefit from visual representations in conjunction with instruction. The old overhead is limited in its ability to provide visual representations with the resources that are now available in the classroom.
My students are middle school students in grades five through eight in a self contained instructional math classroom.
The school exists on the south side of Chicago in a predominantly African American neighborhood. The students are lively and interested in the learning process. Our students enjoy being able to access grade level mathematics in a smaller setting and would benefit from a classroom that has more modern technological devices.
My Project
Having a document camera would allow students the ability to view the work that I do and manipulatives I use as the notes are being written and the manipulatives are being used. Document cameras display images in real time and do not have to be adapted for an overhead. As I am writing notes, the document camera displays the image on the board. If I am using manipulatives, I can use a document camera so that all students in the classroom have the ability to see the images clearly.
This project is important to my students because they deserve the same access to mathematics as students in the general education classroom, and a document camera would make mathematics so much more accessible for them on a daily basis.
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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