February 18, 2009

 

Mr. Craig Whitt

1000 Buccaneer Drive

Hoover, Alabama 35244

 

Grant Proposal for a 4-Computer Classroom for 3^rd grade

 

Dear Hoover School Board,

 

            Gwin Elementary School is pleased to present this proposal for your review. We look forward to partnering with you to provide our classrooms with four personal computer. Our program is designed to enhance children’s learning capacity by equipping them with more advanced learning technology and programs. The objective of the program is to help all students with improve their reading, math, and science skills. Our proposal requests $20,000 in funding to obtain the software, hardware, and training necessary to equip the Gwin Elementary School classrooms with one computer, printer, and projector. We appreciate the Hoover School Board taking an interest in helping our students develop their learning skills. Please give me a call at 746-8664 if you require any further information or have any questions concerning this proposal. I have included the layout of how our classrooms will be set up with four computers,a printer, and projector, as well as the reasons behind the idea to this floor plan

            This classroom has four computers with Internet access, a printer, and a data projector. In my classroom, I have very specific reasoning for the placement of the equipment. This classroom has four computers with Internet access, a printer, and a data projector. When you first walk into the room, the children cubbies are to the far right out of the way and the teacher’s desk is to the immediate left so there is easy access between the parent and teacher to communicate and interact. As you walk into the classroom, directly to the right is the science and math center with a computer at that station. That area will be close to the teacher because students usually struggle with science and math, therefore the teacher will be close to access the students questions. Directly to the left of the teacher’s desk is the art center. Because the art center is usually messy, studnets need to be close to the back so that they can go wash there hands in the bathroom. In the center of the room are all of the children’s desks and the chalkboard and projection screen is centered at the front. This is so that everyone can see the board. The main computer is stationed at the back, beside the teacher’s desk. as well as the data projector and the printer. I feel that this is needed because the teacher needs a computer to be able to type records, notes, and create handouts. She is also at the back of the room so she can see everyone all of the time, and be able to work the projector to the screen. Moving to the front left corner of the room is the last two computers. This area is just a free center where children can play computer games and do fun activities. There are couches and chairs to make it homey and comfortable when reading. The students will be able to use the software on the computers whenever the children are doing centers, or if we are studying a certain lesson and the computer offers a good learning experience. In this occurrence, the children would rotate taking turns so that each child could use the computer. In this situation there are luckily three computers available for the students to use. With this grade their computers would contain all sorts of educational software. For science, we would use a particular software that takes you through the stages of development for plants and animals and has games to go along with it to help them learn, or matching habitats and homes or even recognizing body parts. For social studies we would use software to learn about things in our world such as different cultures of people and watching movies or even interactive games such as Dora, and learning about whom the leaders of our world are. For math we would play money games and counting coins, and could also use fun software to help practice fractions. Lastly, there are so many fun, exciting choices of English software for children to listen and watch a story and then answer questions about it. All of these are examples of what kind of software would be used and implemented on the computers in my classroom. All of these games, learning experiences, and interactive software will help children further their knowledge about these subjects and to learn about technology as well. This software and the computers will be open for all children in the classroom, but only at acceptable times with the teacher. Thank you again for your time.

 

Sincerely,

Ashley Shepherd