Help me give my students 4 Apple Pencils for their iPads to do all the things that will make them successful in a 21st century learning environment.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Luis Bastidas-Garay's classroom raised $550
This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
I teach ELLs at a public elementary school in Greensboro, NC. My school is a Title I school with a diverse population of students and families from all over the globe. My students' skills and needs are as diverse and amazing as the languages and stories they share with their friends at school. Most of them are new arrivals in our country and need a lot of support from everybody, a festive and friendly environment, meaningful input, and valuable resources to make positive progress in their adaptation to their new school, neighborhood, and reality.
My Project
The use of Power Point, Nearpod, and other interactive apps is almost a daily activity in my classroom with all my groups. I need to help my students grow academically by acquiring the necessary linguistic competence to achieve their goals through rich texts and engaging activities usually mediated through technology. The smartboard allows me to show the contents of my lessons and foster participation but it is usually limited to one student at a time. Although this is common practice accross the board, I have seen that it creates tension among my kids and sparks side conversations, and other distractions by those who are not directly participating at the board. Even though they are great about doing this, it is distracting for many of my students who have focusing issues and they miss important instruction form either myself or other students. By having Apple Pencils, students will be able to avoid all of these problems and focus on individually working on their texts in their tablets!
By donating to our project, you will not only help to improve and increase student attention and focus, you will ultimately help to boots their communicative competence thus attaining their goals.
Students will be able to simply focus on the academic material at hand, and not waste time waiting for their turn or socializing. Plus in this technology literate world, any interaction with updated technology will increase their literacy as well as their desire to learn and use the new technology!
Nearly all 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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