Trussville Technology Department Awards Grants to Teachers
Trussville City Schools Technology Department has awarded technology grants to teachers. The objective of the Open Ended Grant is to support teachers in their implementation of technology into their curriculum. There was one grant for $8,000, three grants of $5,000 each, and six grants of $2,000 each. The winners were presented with checks in the amount of the grant they were awarded in January and have begun receiving the items ordered with these grants.
The $8,000 grant was awarded to Sandy Hoffman, Elisabeth Brooks, and Darrell Stovall at Hewitt-Trussville Middle School for Tackling the Difficult to Teach and Difficult to Learn Concepts through Technology . Their project is to use technology in new ways to teach these concepts and increase student engagement and output.
The $5,000 grants were awarded to: Don Garrett at Paine Intermediate for Reel Learning; Larry Jones, Kelli Reardon, and Elisabeth Brooks at Hewitt-Trussville Middle School for Real World Science; and Lisa Moore and Chandler Chauvin at Paine Intermediate for The Resource Room. Reel Learning will provide students with unique opportunities to augment their learning in creative ways via video production. Real World Science focuses on tools to expand inquiry-based teaching techniques and stimulate students' thinking while broadening the understanding of technology in science. The Resource Room project is the creation of a public homepage on the TCS website, focusing on the creation of student-produced multi-media projects on course of study objectives.
The $2,000 grants were awarded to: Nancy Camara and Dawn Childs at Paine Intermediate for Harmonious Habitats; Amanda Hayes, Jackie Ward, Wendy Calvert, Tyler Marlow, and Donnie Slaten at Hewitt-Trussville Middle School for Interactive Physical Education in the Real World; Ann Bettis at Paine Intermediate for Interactive Math and Science; Erin McGuyer and Niki Lincoln at Hewitt-Trussville Middle School for CIV-TECH Cinema; Wendi Latta, Jerrilyn Swett, and Jana LoPresti at Paine Intermediate for Classroom Cornucopia; and Connie Hambey, Jonathan Jeff, Greg Deupree, and Louise Wood at Hewitt-Trussville Middle School for Reaching Every Student on Our Inclusion Team.
Harmonious Habitats will take students on a virtual journey around the world to amazing locations to learn about the plants and animals in those habitats. Interactive Physical Education in the Real World will focus on using technology to better meet the content standards of physical education, including health standards, to encourage students to adopt a more active, healthy lifestyle. Interactive Math and Science will employ technology to activate students to take inquiry and problem solving to a higher level. CIV-TECH Cinema is a mobile recording studio to be used collaboratively across the curriculum for students to create video based on the curriculum they are studying. Classroom Cornucopia addresses the limited styles of teaching to allow teachers to provide a more diverse way of learning to the student population. Reaching Every Student on our Inclusion Team focuses on creating a successful learning venue for every student by implementing student response systems, allowing for larger class participation.