My students need 2 Flip camcorders to create public service announcements (PSAs) about environmental issues and practice listening and speaking in English.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Wolf's classroom raised $447
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
Imagine living in a foreign country you have never been to and where you do not know the language. Without language, it would be pretty difficult to get around or even make friends. Now imagine that you are 14 years old and must graduate high school in this country. This is what my students face.
My high school students are all recent immigrants to the United States.
As a group, although they come from dozens of countries and speak over a dozen languages, they all have a common mission: to learn English while completing the same high school requirements as native English speakers. To overcome this daunting task, we use a collaborative, project-based, interdisciplinary, and content-rich environment in all classes. All teachers are both content and English teachers. In my science class, I use a hands-on activities approach to encourage the use of English in all of its forms - reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Even a student with no English carries education and experiences with them. My projects are designed so students can express who they are and practice their new language with peers. In this system, students who come to me with no English are able to get full scholarships to universities and colleges here in America to pursue their own American Dream.
My Project
Learning to speak and listen in another language takes lots of practice and repetition. When using recording equipment in the past, I noticed how my students would listen to or record the same passages over and over again. It seems they were never pleased with the way something sounded, so they would do it again and again until they were satisfied. They chose to do it themselves, inspired by the content and the ease of the technology. This repetition is exactly the type of practice teachers crave from their students. Like an athlete perfecting a jump shot, the more they do it, the better and easier it becomes. In my science class, it is even more important because it means they are practicing speaking about technical concepts and listening to each other with a more critical ear. With these easy to use camcorders, my students could record and playback group presentations regularly, not just when I am able to reserve the aging school camcorders and a senior student to run them.
On the heels of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, we will be creating Public Service Announcements about environmental issues affecting this and other aquatic ecosystems.
With these camcorders, they would not just be one and done presentations, but they could be well rehearsed, polished, published, and then preserved for my students to show in their year-end performance portfolios. Camcorders will improve their new language, English, and they will become better citizen-scientists, as well.
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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