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Mrs. Latif from Springfield, IL is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Interactive Learning

My students need an interactive document camera to enhance their reading comprehension and writing skills.

  • $1,042 goal

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My Students

Each year, I teach English to 130-165 juniors and seniors from diverse backgrounds and abilities. The majority of my students are visual learners, and I do not have the capability in my classroom to project work and simultaneously show them how to annotate, edit and structure standard written text.

Our student body is comprised of 1,321 students: 50% Black/African American, 40% White, 2% Hispanic/Latino, 7% Two or More Races and 1% Asian.

The school serves 59 % of students from low-income residents (Illinois Report Card). At SSHS, our focus is to increase and improve students reading and writing by teaching them strategic skills through close reading, annotation, think aloud and read aloud. Students learn best when they see first hand from experts. Currently, I use word and Adobe to show the annotation process, but the students struggle with the concept, especially when they work with paper and pen. I can only show my thinking with paper and pen to few students at a time in small group and not to the whole class. With an interactive document camera, I will be able to use paper and pen to show students how expert students revise, edit and work on composing essays and annotate during reading. I want to advance my students' reading comprehension and writing skill

My Project

An Elmo TT-12i Interactive document camera will be a great resource for teaching reading and writing skills to my students. Through the Elmo interactive document camera, I will model annotating, thinking aloud and reading aloud. It will be real time learning for students, as they will see the change occur while I model how to compose correct, concise and precise sentences, paragraphs and essay. The interactive document camera will facilitate the demonstration of ideas through visual techniques as well as oral techniques, enabling me to show the entire classroom the correct writing format and structure and how to annotate text during reading. After regular modeling, students will show improvement. The Elmo TT-12i Interactive Document camera will also be used as a dynamic tool for shared reading, sharing students work, sharing exemplary work, and fixing up work that can be seen by the whole class rather than one or few students. Everyone will be engaged throughout the learning process.

Through 21st Century classroom, I will create dynamic lessons, inspire learning, interactivity, creativity and improve the academic performance of students.

Video lessons created through the interactive document camera will be uploaded on my webpage for students to re-learn the lesson. This interactive instruction will allow my students to observe, recognize, emulate, adopt, practice, and self-regulate their cognitive strategies. I would like the freedom to enrich my students' learning.

Mrs. Latif Springfield Southeast High School Grades 9-12

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More about Mrs. Latif

Springfield, IL View local requests

More than half of 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

160 students impacted 11donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
ELMO TT-12i Interactive Document Camera • Teachers' School Supply $760.00 1 $760.00

Materials cost

$760.00

Vendor shipping charges

$83.60

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.40

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$885.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$156.18

Total project goal

$1,041.18

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,041.18

8 Donors

-$502.94

Donations toward project cost

-$442.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$60.44

match offer

-$520.59

Match offer toward project cost

-$442.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$78.09

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.65

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$0.00

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