College students and lecturers with the Andalusia Metropolis Faculty System have applied new know-how in lecture rooms designed to teach and interact.
As of final week, all core lecture rooms of town faculty system now have Promethean boards, interactive whiteboards that assist to extend pupil engagement and promote collaboration. By means of quite a lot of applications, the boards permit for lecturers to make use of interactive actions that may improve their classroom classes.
A pupil participates in a lesson utilizing a Promethean board.
A complete of 80 boards at the moment are put in in each core classroom — studying, math, science, and historical past — from kindergarten to twelfth grade.
The boards had been bought using Elementary and Secondary Emergency Aid Funds (ESSER), that are offered to varsities to assist shut the educational hole from the pandemic. The varsity system invested $233,000 to finish the acquisition.
ACSS Instructional Know-how Specialist Jessica Tucker stated the know-how presents the best-available built-in studying expertise.
“They are focused on teaching and student learning by enhancing instruction through engaging classroom activities, high-definition graphics, and quality sound,” Tucker stated.
Among the options embody spinners the place a trainer or pupil can spin to pick who will reply questions or can use them to kind questions. They’re additionally geared up with timers, an infinite canvas for writing, and a built-in net browser.
The varsity system already makes use of 1-to-1 studying, which means there’s a machine for every pupil. Decrease grades make the most of iPads whereas the highschool has MacBooks.
“These are the perfect enhancement to our 1-to-1 technology environment. Now, not only do the students have a device at their seat, but they are able to come to the front and demonstrate their knowledge on an interactive display for the class,” Tucker stated.
The aim, in accordance with Tucker, is to boost the classroom atmosphere with participating actions.
“For teachers, this puts tools right there at their fingertips to offer engaging instruction through layering this technology into their lessons,” she stated. “For students, it provides the ability to demonstrate their knowledge. They are invited to touch the board as much — or even more — than the teacher.”
AHS English Language Arts trainer Erin Chavers is already seeing an impression the boards present in her classroom.
“My experience with the Promethean board has been incredible. It has made my job so much easier being able to have everything I need at the touch of a button. My seniors absolutely love it. It gets them out of their seats and gives them opportunities to do things that they normally wouldn’t be able to do; it makes them an actual part of the lesson and gives them more ownership of their work. I look forward to all of the exciting things the board will do to enhance my teaching and my students’ learning.”
The final of the Promethean boards had been put in Thursday, Nov. 4. Previous to set up, AXI Schooling Options — the seller that offered the boards — held in-person coaching for the lecturers.
The acquisition of the boards got here after lecturers examined quite a lot of whiteboards final 12 months with faculty officers in the end deciding to buy the Promethean boards.
“With the installation of the Promethean boards in all three schools, our teachers have a new tool to help them improve their teaching styles and will also help our students learn by making the lessons more engaging for them,” stated ACS Superintendent Dr. Daniel Shakespeare.
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