Promethean Board for a Speech/Language Therapy Room

Funded May 9, 2024

I cannot begin to thank you enough on how each and every donation from all of you has had such a positive impact in my classroom. Over the past school year, my students relied heavily on using their listening skills as best as they could because we did not have working technology within the Speech and Language Therapy Room and my lessons were hand written on a white board which did not always meet the needs of my students, not to mention were not engaging in a technology driven world.

Although we only received the Promethean Board at the very end of the school year, we were able to begin using it and all of the students were very excited to see it up and running. In order to prepare them for final exams, we were able to play various trivia games such as Jeopardy in which they were able to collaborate with one another and discuss answers to questions related to making inferences in the text or supporting evidence. Another student who is seen for an individual session was able to utilize the board to create complex sentences while typing her responses versus hand writing them. Lastly, another student was ecstatic to be able to go up to the board during lessons to answer questions and use the marker tools and "act as the teacher".

Lastly, we. were able to use the board to learn about the process of writing a Thank You letter! Most of my students had never even heard about such a thing and I was able to explain to them that there will be many times in their lives where a Thank You note should be sent such as for generous gifts like a Promethean Board, after a job interview, a major life event such as a wedding, etc. It was great reading their heartfelt thank you notes to all the donors and I am confident they will know how and when to send a thank you in the future.”

With gratitude,

Ms. Donovan