Award-Winning Teacher Gets Grant for implementing Revolutionary, yet easy-to-use and cost-effective helloWorld Technology
Chuck Serventi is an educator whose innovative approach to teaching using steaming video has already made him a favorite among his young students and earned him statewide recognition. Now, thanks to a grant from Navajo Generating Station, Chuck can share some of his helloWorld “secrets” with other teachers at Lake View Elementary School in Page, Arizona.
“Utilizing streaming video in the classroom helps me inspire, engage, and motivate my students while broadening their horizons and exposing them to the new world of digital media,” he explains. “This recent grant brings the total amount to $3,000 for interactive boards, helloWorld accounts, and webcams. The monies received from NGS are earmarked so that an additional five teachers will now be able to use helloWorld in their classrooms."
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TEACHER CASE STUDY
The Challenge
Chuck's Serventi is a 5th grade teacher in Page, Arizona, who teaches mathematics in an inclusive classroom of students with varying levels of intelligences and mathematics abilities. Despite being an experienced teacher, Chuck struggled to effectively utilize the limited instructional time to teach the demanding mathematics curriculum to a young generation of diverse learners.
Furthermore, with increased demands of NCLB Act to raise standardized test scores, and new laws under the IDEA to include students of varying abilities, there were now new pressures on Chuck to teach to the individual intelligences of his students through differentiated instruction, and set aside class time to include time for standardized test preparation. Chuck was looking for a way to avoid losing valuable time in the classroom spent on repetition and reinforcement of previously learned lessons to prepare students for exams, and save his free time spent on additional tutoring to address individual needs, and communicate with parents about their children's progress.
The Solution
Chuck realized that latest digital utilizing technology offers the effective tools to engage today's generation of students, and visual tools are the best way to help students retain information. With studies showing people remember 10% of what they read, 20% of what they hear, 30% of what they see, and 50% of what they see and hear together. Chuck decided to try something new, and two years ago, he began to use helloWorld studio to record and archive his lessons, and communicate with students and parents
The Results
The results of using helloWorld Studio in classroom were immediate and dramatic, and Chuck shared that his experience opens a new door to classroom teaching, with helloWorld as a tremendous digital tool for engaging any learner. During the course of two years, Chuck has been able to increase valuable classroom time for instruction of new material, effectively reach individual learning needs of his students, and save time spent on communicating with parents.
Anytime of the day, Chuck's students can review any lesson and receive help with the day's homework assignment, simply by logging onto his helloWorld blog and playing the video of any lesson. Chuck shared that by using the features of the helloWorld studio, nearly all of his students had become more successful in the classroom, with 30%-50% earning significantly better grades.
Furthermore, the easy-to-use technology of helloWorld, accessible anytime, from any computer, has helped bridge communication with parents. By viewing the videos of concepts that their children are struggling with, parents have a powerful tool to help them take a more active role in nurturing their children's academic progress by helping to reinforce at home the complex concepts from class, help with exam preparation and homework. As a result, of using helloWorld, Chuck considerably reduced the number of inquiries and complaints from parents regarding their child's' academic progress in his classroom.
As a result of his innovative use of latest technology in the classroom to increase student achievement and improve teacher-parent communication, among his colleagues, administration, students, and parents, Chuck has earned a reputation as a highly effective teacher. In 2007, Chuck was distinguished at the state level, and was nominated as the "Teacher of the Year" in the state of Arizona. The same year, Chuck was 1 of 88 teachers in Arizona to be awarded with an honor by Wal-Mart as "Teacher of the Year". Chuck received a $3,000 grant to set up additional five teachers at his school with helloWorld accounts with interactive boards, and web cams. Presently, there are additional 8-12 teachers at Chuck's school who are in the process of adopting helloWorld in their classroom, with the numbers growing every day.
The results of Chuck's experience open the door for other teachers seeking tools to help them save time and help the new generation of students. The easy-to-use features of helloWorld make it a perfect instructional tool for any classroom, and Chuck's shared that it will be a matter of time before helloWorld will be widely used by teachers across the K-12 content areas.
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