Help me give my students an engaging virtual classroom with teaching technology that transforms a two-dimensional computer screen into a dynamic inviting portal to access empowering literacy, animated math concepts, participatory science demos, and exhilarating story time adventures.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Peña's classroom raised $2,350
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
LEARNING IN THE TIME OF CORONA has tested my second grade students' resilience, resourcefulness, and adaptability.
The same striving spirit that drove their families' immigrant dreams now fuels an enduring commitment to bridge the digital divide, overcome language barriers, and rise above economic hardship.
I marvel everyday at my students' persistence and fierce dedication to mastering computer skills and use these to practice, learn, and interact in meaningful ways with one another and with me, their teacher.
My Project
The virtual classroom for young learners must be carefully curated to reflect sound pedagogy, a dynamic multi-sensory experience, and clearly visible models, operations, and instructions. My second grade students are young learners who learn best when all sources of information are presented in a seamlessly aligned, well coordinated, and mutually reinforcing manner.
The iPad Pro and iPencil will allow me to create pre-recorded videos to embed in live synchronous instruction slides or to share with students as an asynchronous lesson, a tutorial, or differentiated instruction.
To be dynamic, engaging, and relevant, my online teaching practice relies on frequent shifts in camera shots that capture my face, math manipulatives, a white board on the wall, and/or the pages of a storybook, or a writing journal. The iPad Pro and iPencil will be synched with my cell phone camera to weave together all the essential elements of my virtual classroom as I toggle back and forth between the teacher's face (expression), hands (modeling with manipulatives/props), and visual displays (posters, white board, story books, etc).
More than three‑quarters of 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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