Teaching Remotely and Creating Better Materials With Better Technology!
Help me give my students appropriate mathematics materials that I can create on a touch-screen laptop!
$1,636 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! 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.
I currently teach in a 9th grade math inclusion classroom as the special education instructor. My students have been really resilient, despite the struggles that the majority of them have on a daily basis, let alone the added struggles that this pandemic has caused. I teach in an urban high school outside of Boston where over 70% of our students qualify for free and reduced lunch. COVID-19 is hitting our community extremely hard and our positivity rates are still increasing. Unfortunately, our rates are one of the highest in the state. Many of my students and their guardians are essential workers who have had to continue to work throughout the entire pandemic. As a result, teachers are required to teach remotely from the classroom 3 times a week and have the option of teaching from home 2 days. My special education students have a variety of different needs and frequently require that I meet with them in small groups or 1-on-1. I am hoping to fund a computer that is suitable for me to teach remotely, in both locations, to give my students the best chance at successfully learning the material this year!
My Project
Teaching math to special education students remotely on Zoom just isn't the same as teaching them in person. My students need that one-on-one support and frequent check-ins. While on Zoom with them, I can easily share a whiteboard from my computer, but that is not helpful to me if I cannot write on it.
Having a touch-screen laptop will allow me write out the more challenging math problems, or draw graphs and pictures, which I cannot type on our school-issued Chromebooks.
This laptop will also help me to create better materials and switch between different applications and different windows more effortlessly, as I constantly have multiple things open and running at the same time.
Additionally, I would greatly appreciate the extra charger so that I don't get stuck at home or at school without one. Furthermore, the laptop stand will be essential in helping me out with my posture, as I am now constantly sitting rather than roaming around the room helping individual students.
The way I teach has been completely transformed because of this pandemic, and not having the proper technology has made it all the more challenging. Many of my students work so hard and they deserve to have the best learning experience possible. Helping to fund this project, helps me to help them! Any contribution you could make would be greatly appreciated!
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