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= SMART Starts at Nakina Public School =

Nakina Public School is a small school located in Nakina, Ontario. Teachers this year (2007/08) were approved to participate in a Teacher Learning and Leadership Program (TLLP). The TLLP is a resource made possible by a grant through the Ministry of Education. It is a project-based activity for selected experienced teachers whose choice of career is the classroom.

The teachers submitted a proposal focusing on using the Smart Board to enhance their math program through interactive tools. The funding provides opportunities to purchase new classroom resources for teachers and students, provides professional development opportunities as well as release time for teachers to become more familiar with the technology. To date we have purchased an e-text program for the grade seven students that enables them to view their text book online so that they can complete assignments at home without having to take their text books with them. Click on the link to learn more: [|Pearson's etext] We also purchased electronic math manipulatives and software tools: interactive technology to promote conceptual understanding from Pearson as well. Click on the link to learn more: [|Pearson's etools]

Through the use of this Program we were also able to send teachers to the [|ECOO Conference] and the [|OAME Conference]where they gained a wealth of information that they were able to bring back and share!

Other resources purchased include [|Middle School Math for SMART Notebook] These notebook files consist of 200 exemplar Notebook lessons that can transform the way that SMART Boards are utilized within your school or school district for just cents per lesson... and with no ongoing costs or fees. A fantastic productivity resource for teachers, the lessons install directly into the Notebook Gallery where they are organized by grade level and strand. This makes them tremendously useful and accessible.

As well we purchased many of [|Dr. Marian Small's] books and [|Cathy Fosnot's] Context's for Learning Mathematics & Young Mathematicians at Work as well as the [|First Steps in Mathematics] Resource books - all great resources learned about while attending the conferences listed above!

Download the following Crosswalks pdf, which links Cathy Fosnot's //Contexts for Learning// to the //Math Makes Sense// program.

You can navigate to other pages in this wiki where you will discover some of the great interactive sites that we now use with our SMARTBoards, as well as some notebook files that have either been created by one of us, or adapted from others found on the internet to use. There are also some great resources for those who are just starting out with using the SMARTBoard.

At any time if you have any questions, don't hesitate to create a discussion topic or send me an email at kathleen.schram@gmail.com


 * Hoping to soon post links to interactive sites sorted by math topic/strand..... check back often!