"Oh! The Places You’ll Go!...You won’t lag behind, because you’ll have the speed. You’ll pass the whole gang and you’ll soon take the lead." Dr. Seuss and I both agree that our future is our students. My students need additional technology in our classroom to take us to great places!
I have a mixture of students from our neighborhood, inner city, and military base.
We have a very multicultural and diverse school make-up. Our school is over 85% Free and Reduced lunch with limited funding for technology due to tight budgets and a large county. Our school is one of the very few schools in our state to become a UNESCO Global Leadership Academy for the 2011 school year. We have just two computer labs to share with over six hundred students. Not every classroom has an extra computer for student use.
My Project
Reading and writing are the basic fundamentals for learning and life. I would love for my advanced/gifted classes to be challenged and for my intensive classes to become fluent readers. The use of technology in my classroom would really assist all of my students in those processes. If we are able to get the funding, I would be able to create a reading/writing technology center in my room that students could use daily (not just once a week in another room). My intensive class would be able to have a reading lab that included multiple headsets for books on cd. This would help my students with reading fluency and accuracy. By having a laptop in the classroom, my gifted students could create PowerPoint projects, complete research, and use word processing programs to further their writing and reading skills. In addition, I would be able to store their work on the computer so it would be available to them at any time. I would also be able to use more technology is lesson presentation
Both my gifted and my intensive students will be impacted on a daily basis with the use of this technology project.
Many of these students do not have any access to a computer or listening center outside of my class. With this support, my students reading levels and writing performance will increase with their learning.
More than half of students from low‑income households
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