Technology in the Classroom

1. By Holly Bailey Interdisciplinary Technology

2. Writing Two ways to help with improvement of commended scores: teacher training & moving students to the next writing level. Teacher Training: send teachers to The Writing Academy. This is a workshop for teachers and has been proven to raise written composition scores in our district. A mini grant was funded this past year to send all the writing teacher at one campus to this academy. Increasing Student Level: through Wheelies (example follows), peer editing, administrator editing, peer story building, technology integrations and “What Is It?” games. Revising and editing: even though we are strongest in this area we need to keep improving. The revising and editing section of the test ask numerous questions like “What Change If Any.” Students need to be taught to write the letters CPSU (Capitalization, Punctuation, Spelling, Usage) every time they see this question. They also must understand what is off topic.

5. Reading Increasing Student Level: through increasing vocabulary, Venn diagrams (within a flipchart) and some prediction strategies (example to follow).

8. Math Increasing Student Level: TECHNOLOGY, increase contact with our community partners, hands on math.

10. Utilizing Community Members Welcome to the Armand Bayou Nature Center www.abnc.org

11. Science Increasing Student Level: continued use of technology, increase contact with our community partners, and intertwining of math and science curriculum.