Fostering Independence

Funded Sep 18, 2024

There are no words to adequately express my gratitude for every donation. Teaching using tech has enhanced my students learning experience greatly, from providing accessibility features like text-to-speech, speech-to-text, visual aids, implementing lessons with multiple modalities, and much more. Because of your help, learning has come alive in so many ways for my students. The introduction of different learning modalities such as videos, audio, and games has made my lessons more engaging. This has also aided me in differentiating my instruction, providing a wide range of learning materials to meet the needs of my students, providing various ways for them to be able to access the lessons. Not only are lessons engaging, but classroom assessments as well. The assessments being more interactive, fun, and engaging, are now able to hold their attention for longer periods of time and capture more accurate data about what their areas of strength and weaknesses are, which better aids me in building on their strengths and addressing their areas of weakness.

Using this technology, has enabled me to make learning so much more interactive and fun for my students. One of the activities that I was able to upgrade due to this new tech is my morning meetings. It is so much more interactive, and due to this I am seeing students who would normally need multiple redirections throughout the lesson to help them stay engaged, now so engrossed in the morning meetings, leading to significant decrease in off-task behaviors.

Again, thank you for your generosity that has made such a significant impact on my students learning. Thank you for providing me with this tool that allows me to access and create resources, capture and track data, and make learning more engaging for my students. I am very grateful.”

With gratitude,

Ms. Millette