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Mrs. Sekera from Trafford, PA is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Promoting Active Student Engagement Through Worthwhile Classroom Whiteboard Utilization

Help me give my students two wall-mounted whiteboards, a mobile whiteboard, assorted colored whiteboard markers, and whiteboard erasers to collaborate, create, analyze, and actively engage with our course content.

  • 5 donors
  • $504 goal

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My Project

The whiteboards, markers, and erasers that I am requesting for my students will greatly improve my students' interaction with course content and overall learning experience in our Grade 7 English and Language Arts (ELA) classroom. My Grade 7 ELA students are enthusiastic and eager to learn, but often struggle with instructional techniques that only offer interaction with paper or their computers versus active instructional engagement with their classmates.

By donating to this project, you will make our ELA 7 instructional techniques and strategies more interactive and engaging, which will make our course content more meaningful and better retained.

One activity for which students will use these whiteboards is called Gallery Walk, where students walk around the room from whiteboard to whiteboard, as they would in an art gallery while viewing pieces of art, collaborating with their classmates and commenting on the posted content before synthesizing their thoughts and participating in a whole-class discussion on the topic at hand. Students will also use these whiteboards for grammar activities such as labeling parts of speech in given text, with each whiteboard focusing on one part of speech. When reading literature and analyzing characters, students will be able to rotate around the room, stopping at each whiteboard to record text evidence that reveals a character's speech, thoughts, effect on other characters, actions, and looks, in addition to other qualities labeled on additional whiteboards.

These above activities encourage and utilize higher-level thinking skills such as synthesis, analysis, and evaluation in my students while also promoting positive interpersonal skills, listening skills, team building, and critical thinking, results which I have seen in my many years of teaching and are supported by research.

My overall goal for this project is to actively engage my students during instruction and help them to love and learn our content!

Mrs. Sekera
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Mount-It! Mobile Dry Erase Whiteboard - Rolling White Board with Casters and Stand, 36x24 Inches Reversible Double-Sided Dry Erase Board, Wall Mountable Magnetic Easel with Locking Caster Wheels • Amazon Business $130.00 1 $130.00
VIZ-PRO Magnetic Whiteboard/Dry Erase Board, 48 X 36 Inches, Silver Aluminium Frame • Amazon Business $62.50 2 $125.00
EXPO Low-Odor Dry Erase Markers, Chisel Tip, Assorted Colors, 36 Count • Amazon Business $20.36 5 $101.80
Expo 81505 Block Eraser Dry Erase Whiteboard Board Eraser, Soft Pile, 5 1/8 W x 1 4 H - Pack of 12 • Amazon Business $34.96 1 $34.96

Materials cost

$391.76

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$427.64

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$75.47

Total project goal

$503.11

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $503.11

4 Donors

-$334.23

Donations toward project cost

-$285.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$48.63

match offer

-$167.11

Match offer toward project cost

-$142.04

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$25.07

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.77

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 $0.00

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