My students need headphones for our listening center in order to improve literacy skills.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Mayers's classroom raised $358
This project is fully funded
My Students
Robert Frost said "I teach in order to learn." As a teacher, I guide students in learning, but I also learn from my students. This is especially true in the digital age. As I teach skills in becoming historians, students teach me new innovations which inspires me to create a digital classroom.
Our school has a diverse population of learners who are bright, curious, talented and eager to learn!
Many classes are student-driven in that rather than teachers being the "sage on the stage" we opt to be the "guide on the side." With the right materials and some facilitation or guidance from teachers, students are the masters of their own learning.
Our students have many talents and we try to tailor instruction to incorporate those talents. After studying political cartoons from a particular time period, students who artistically inclined have the opportunity to create their own political cartoon. In a unit on activism, student musicians can create their own song of activism on a present-day social, political or economic issue. We have an impressive amount of students who after a placement test and a competitive application process are accepted into specialized high schools whose graduates boast acceptance into the nation's top colleges and universities.
My Project
It is my hope to enhance the teaching and learning of history by engaging students with listening centers. With headphones, students can create their own personal listening centers as I differentiate instruction for them. Gone are the days when all students must watch the same video or listen to the same audio recording. Student learning can be personalized when they listen to a variety of audio recordings of texts, or even view informational video at his/her own pace.
Donations to this project will help to create a digital classroom for learners.
In creating a digital classroom, I hope to provide students with a positive learning experience that fosters skills to make them college and career ready. A digital classroom will also help facilitate project-based learning experiences which have proven to foster learning more effectively than traditional "chalk and talk" methods of instruction.
More than half 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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