Improving
Reading Scores Through Technology Integration
 Jeongwha
Lors
8th Grade Language Arts
Pinon Accelerated Middle School
Pinon Unified School District #4, Pinon, AZ
This lesson demonstrates how technology can be
combined with best teaching practices to engage students and improve
reading skills.
Mrs. Lors uses a variety of teaching approaches
to help her students take "center stage" in her classroom.
The students explore compelling literature, discuss in small groups,
develop there own unique stories and then present them to the class
for critique as "young authors.".
A wireless mobile computer lab and LCD projector
allow Mrs. Lors to easily integrate technology into the lesson to
engage the students, enrich the content and extend learning. While
teaching literature she is able to teach technology skills such
as word processing, editing on a computer, using email and authoring
presentations. The primary focus is improving reading and writing
skills, and secondarily on technology skills.
Mrs. Lors started her successful teaching career
in Seoul, Korea and was recently named a GLAD Model teacher in 2003.
She strongly feels that technology
is an important tool for teaching today's students. "Do not
fear technology. If you do not know how to do something, chances
are one of your students will help you." She also believes
that relationships are critical to working with middle school students.
One of her favorite things about teaching in Pinon is that she sees
her students and their parents outside of school. "Pinon is
a very small town so we all know each other and see one another
all of the time. There is such a wonderful sense of family here."
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