Our Classroom’s Technology Prospective
Classroom’s Technology Mission Statement
Integrating math, science, and language arts through the use of technology to serve English language learner’s needs.
School’s Mission Statement
Edgewood Elementary is dedicated to ensuring that every child reaches full potential by bringing teachers, students and families together where Everyone Will Excel.
Edgewood Elementary buses its students from nearby neighborhoods in an urban area of Houston, Texas. Our school serves a predominately economically disadvantaged, Hispanic population (89%). Of these students, 73% are Limited English Proficiency. Our focus and concern are the improvement of English proficiencies within this population so that these students may successfully pass district and state mandated tests; especially in the areas of reading and science.
Classroom’s Technology Goal
Our Classroom’s Goal can be described as follows:
Using the HP-granted technology, our classroom will incorporate more effective visual tools and strategies to support the diverse learning needs of our English language learners’ population. The focus will be to integrate math, science, and language arts through the following components:
1. Create incentives to students through the use of technology to learn science, math, and language arts in both Spanish and English based on activities that foster high order thinking skills
2. Incorporate technology into curriculum in a more effective and engaging manner providing the students with the tools and skills necessary to complete academic projects
3. Make instruction motivational and meaningful to the students to accomplish mastery of content concepts in math, science, and language arts
4. Promote the appropriate use of the math, science, and language arts vocabulary to enhance effective communication skills of second language learners
5. Foster the use of an effective problem solving model utilizing Spanish and English as a Second Language strategies
6. Increase the students’ attention span through interactive, age appropriate activities
7. Group students into active, cooperative learning groups
8. Make instruction more flexible to different learning styles and be able to address students’ learning needs
9. Make connections to students’ diverse cultural backgrounds to provide meaningful instruction
10. Encourage other teachers to integrate technology into the curriculum in order to engage students and facilitate the learning styles of the English Language Learners’ population
Students’ Centered Oriented Activities
1. During independent practice and cooperative student practice, the students will be able to learn, practice, and master concepts of the curriculum.
2. Model age appropriate Internet searches linked to scientific projects.
3. Use multimedia presentations to show students findings, summaries, projects, solution processes, reflections, and experiments.
4. Students will create and present electronic portfolios at the annual campus technology day in May where the whole community is invited.
Students’ Progress
The Teacher will evaluate the students’ progress through several key components. The first component will be the students’ performance on District Benchmark tests which are given during every 9 week period of the academic year which include math, science, and language arts.
The teacher will also use check lists to determine if students are grasping the fundamentals of problem solving activities and/or investigations. Teacher created rubrics for projects will serve both as a model for science/math projects and as an on-going tool for refining student output. Students will create electronic portfolios with teacher created timelines of necessary data or files to be included. The quality of student projects will be reviewed by teams as part of the annual building technology day. The goal will be 100% student participation meeting the guidelines of a successful student math, science, and language arts project for this annual technology day.
Felipe Acosta
2nd Grade Bilingual Teacher
acosta.felipe@springbranchisd.com
713-365-4010 (Voice), 713-365-4005 (Fax)