Excellent classroom for people to grow and enjoy creating something new and exciting. Catching people's attention allows them to follow and be interested. In turn this makes people try harder and more often accomplishing goals and practices that they may never have been able to find or know. Allowing students to interact and show off there abilities can only improve their confidence and outlook in school. I never saw one bored kid in the classroom and that says a great deal. I think it is great that a teacher is willing to put the time and effort as well as putting aside her ego for the good of the kids.
I also saw very little in the way of minorities, special needs students, or lack of equipment. Each kid seemed to have full access to their own computer, devices such as iphones and never realized that this was a normal public funded school. My high school never had a computer in the building that I was aware of. Obviously, Georgia has funds in abundance compared to Alabama if it is able to pay off each teachers student loans and outfit the classroom with enough technology for all students to have this kind of opportunity. My wife has one computer and a smart board. The smart board was installed over the summer and is facing the side view of the class instead of the front of the class. The cable is too short to go from her desk to the smart board and moving the desk to the side is not a option because of lack of room. Yet, the school can't give her a new cable that is long enough rendering the "new" technology useless. Baldwin County is bankrupt and trying to lay off teachers who are tenured, so I don't think there technology is going to improve over the next few years.
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
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