This past summer, I have gone to some great training sessions on SMART Boards and on Scholastic's Read 180 program, which our school will have this year. The SMART Board is an object based technology and can be used to create and/or improve any lesson at any grade level. I was able to create a lesson on the new MLA citation changes and hope to use this lesson in the coming year. I now want to integrate some SMART Board features into my library orientation. The visual and interactive components of the SMART Board technology should make it very attractive to our students.
The Read 180 training impressed me with the ability of the technology to zero in on the real needs and/or deficiencies of students in their reading abilities. There is no way that a teacher can give each student such individual attention. This is especially important now, with class sizes increasing. In addition, the visual and interactive aspects of the program will appeal to struggling students. Their attention will be kept and they can work on their weaknesses in private. This might even improve their behavior, as this reader will no longer have to act out or speak out to compensate for his/her inability to read well. Wouldn't that be great???
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