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Mrs. Sherman's Classroom

  • Hawthorne Elementary School
  • Oklahoma City, OK
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Past projects 3

  • Read Like You Mean It!

    Funded Dec 24, 2017

    The impact of my funded project "Read Like You Mean It!" is not immeasurable...it is VERY measurable! Two to three times per week we are reading and graphing the students Words per Minute. They see their improvement on their graph. Most of the time between Cold and Hot reads there is a 30 to 40 word improvement in a timed minute. Mind Blowing!

    My students are most excited about being able to read ANYWHERE in the room. Under tables, under desks, against a wall (with cushions), in a corner, or just at their desks.

    I can hear improvement weekly, and sometimes daily as the students do their 'Hot' and 'Cold' reads to me. I can hear the expression in their voices as they read that wasn't there before. Everything about their reading improves because they are hearing the correct pronunciation, intonation, and expression as they are seeing it on the written page.

    In Mrs. Sherman's room we are all about fluency and accuracy with expression!”

    With gratitude,

    Mrs. Sherman

  • Let's Get Personal

    Funded May 25, 2017

    My students are thrilled with the new CD players. As you can see from the pictures the students are allowed to sit anywhere in the room to read. They love the freedom to sit at a desk or lay on the floor. With these players they are listening to the text with correct intonation and pacing, following along (tracking) with a finger to keep up with the text, and when they are comfortable, reading along with the text. I cannot always read along with or listen to every student everyday, but with the CD players the students are responsible for listening and following along with fidelity until they come to me to read. They track their fluency and speed and are always happy when they see their weekly improvement.

    What is amusing to me is that their favorite thing about the players is the shiny blue color!

    The previous CD players were a dull black. It is amazing that a little thing like color grabs their attention - but in a good way.”

    With gratitude,

    Mrs. Sherman

  • Special Students, Special Needs

    Funded Oct 3, 2016

    The purpose of my project was to create a more equal playing field for my students that have IEP's but are mainstreamed into the general education classroom. Because of budget cuts we usually have fairly large general education classrooms. When using laptops or Chromebooks many times my students are teamed up with another student because there are just not enough computers to go around. Even though they are on IEP's they can be very tech savvie and frequently have taught me how to do something on the computer, especially the Chromebooks.

    My students particularly like the fact they can now come to the lab and borrow a Chromebook and call it their own for the duration of a project. Recently 5th grade did a project about the planets. Mark was able to do his three slides of the project on his own and take his time because he did not have to give a computer to someone else.

    The lab students love, love, love, doing Power Points on the Chromebooks. They have discovered all the little things that make the projects pop (i.e.) transitions between slides, different fonts and different colors for the fonts. They might not sit still to write a paragraph with paper-pencil but they will spend as much time as I give them perfecting their PowerPoint slides.”

    With gratitude,

    Mrs. Sherman

"I'm sorry, but your class will have to wait until 'testing, Benchmarks, class projects, regular classrooms' (ad nauseum) are finished using the Chromebooks". This is what I am faced with on a weekly basis. I hope to build a small Special Education Lab class size set of Chromebooks so my students don't have to wait on other classes to finish their projects. These Chromebooks will even travel with them to their general education classrooms if needed. They can start assignments in the classroom and then continue in Lab if they need more individualized, explicit help. The general education teachers frequently give quizzes using the Chromebooks, and my students often need extended time or help to complete the quizzes. With a set of Chromebooks dedicated to the lab my students can complete the quizzes in lab and get the individualized help they need to finish the test. If they happen to be absent the day of a quiz or test they can make it up in lab; again with direct, explicit help if needed. The push in Special Education now is to keep these students in the regular classroom doing the regular assignments, with accommodations, as much as possible. With a small lab set of Chromebooks this can be more easily accomplished.

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"I'm sorry, but your class will have to wait until 'testing, Benchmarks, class projects, regular classrooms' (ad nauseum) are finished using the Chromebooks". This is what I am faced with on a weekly basis. I hope to build a small Special Education Lab class size set of Chromebooks so my students don't have to wait on other classes to finish their projects. These Chromebooks will even travel with them to their general education classrooms if needed. They can start assignments in the classroom and then continue in Lab if they need more individualized, explicit help. The general education teachers frequently give quizzes using the Chromebooks, and my students often need extended time or help to complete the quizzes. With a set of Chromebooks dedicated to the lab my students can complete the quizzes in lab and get the individualized help they need to finish the test. If they happen to be absent the day of a quiz or test they can make it up in lab; again with direct, explicit help if needed. The push in Special Education now is to keep these students in the regular classroom doing the regular assignments, with accommodations, as much as possible. With a small lab set of Chromebooks this can be more easily accomplished.

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