Use Technology to Assist Absent Students With Directions and Assignments
Help me give my students the opportunity to use technology with iPads as a way to get additional support with directions, examples and modeling of the activities in class.
My students are between the ages of 16 and 24 and have many different reasons why they attend the school. As an ELL and English 1 and English 2 teacher, I work with students who are brand new to the country as well as students who have had some amount of time away from learning as a result of various obstacles. Some students have been living in D.C. their entire lives, while some have lived in D.C. for only a few months.
Regardless of the differences in student background, the students are motivated to learn and to graduate in order to start the next chapter of their lives.
They are hard-working and perseverant in school and out of school.
My Project
At our school, there are many factors in our students’ lives that affect their ability to come on a daily basis. When a student is absent, they can feel lost when they return to class. I am requesting an iPad that will have the prior day’s lesson recorded so that students can see exactly what they missed.
With this iPad, students will feel empowered in their ability to catch up in class when they have been absent and in their ability to check the directions when they have missed them.
With the iPad, students will be able to review recorded videos to watch the teacher and other students demonstrate the day’s activities.
By recording the day’s lessons, students will no longer feel lost when they return to school after an absence or when they are not sure of a specific concept.
More than a third of students from low‑income households
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