Our project, “You Like to Write, Right?” focuses on student engagement. The goal is to compare traditional writing methods, your pencil and paper version, with a technology driven writing class. We will also focus on the difference writing to a real world audience has on engagement and dedication to the writer’s craft. One group of my eighth…Read More

Number sense is important because it encourages students to think flexibly and promotes confidence with numbers– they ” make friends with numbers ” as Carlyle And Mercado charmingly refer to in their book Teaching Preschool and Kindergarten Math. Conversesely, students who lack strong number sense have trouble developing the foundation needed…Read More

In my project, Kindergarten’s Battle to Close Achievement Gaps in Rural Appalachia, we are going to see if minimizing student distractions, increasing student engagement, and creating a library of digital student presentations increase student letter recognition, sound production, and improve language communication skills. In Kindergarten, c…Read More

According to ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development), phonetic awareness and letter knowledge have been identified in several research studies (Anderson, Hiebert, Scott, & Wilkerson, 1985; Adams, 1990; Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998) as the two key indicators of how well children will master beginning reading skills during the…Read More

In the project-based unit “Roam Around the World: Without Wings, Without Wheels”, students will be completing a long term project at their own pace. This unit will focus on individualized learning that will address 21st century student outcomes of global awareness. In addition, this unit will integrate content standards that are already in pla…Read More