Main Solution:
Make an APP for teachers and students
Description: We will create an app to allow students to see their teachers game plan ahead of time. The name of our app will be “The Virtual Classroom.” We hope to eliminate most paper usage and switch to a primarily technology based classroom. The Virtual Classroom App is not only beneficial to teachers but is crucial in the student lives because they are now able to know what is expected of them and now have their own inputs. Additionally, our group believes this is a great solution for numerous of reasons. For instance, it will allow students to have a say in how they are teached and what they are taught that day. It also incorporate an important component to students life which is technology and being able to connect something that students like with school will help students stay more focused.
Point of view statement:
Corry is currently a 10th grader attending Lindblom Math & Science academy in Chicago, Illinois. Lindblom is a selective enrollment school, located in the West Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. During the middle of his classes, Corry becomes eager to leave due to being bored.
Support POV:
- Teachers and students can both have input
- Since students can be active and choose how and what they are taught, they want have the urge to leave class early due to boredom
APP component:
- The “Virtual Classroom” app will allow students to access technology,work at their learning pace and be more engaged with their teachers’ lesson plans
- Teachers will give the students options to pick what lesson plan they would want to learn that day and how they want it to be taught.
Point of View Statement:
Corry is currently a 10th grader attending Lindblom Math & Science academy in Chicago, Illinois. Lindblom is a selective enrollment, cps school located in the West Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. During the middle of his classes, Corry becomes eager to leave due to being bored.
Point of View Questions:
- How might we make classes more interesting and engaging?
- How might class lengths be shortened to eliminate the urge to leave?
- How might the curriculum be adjusted to different students?
- How might we allow students more freedom to pick their own classes?
- How might teachers make lessons more fun?
- How might students collaborate with teachers to make better lessons?
- How might we change the course of classes through the day?
- How might we put students in a class with their friends?
- How might we hire different teachers?
- How might students learn to Interact with one another?
Brainstorm 75 Ideas That Address These Questions:
| Give breaks in classes |
| Ask students what their interests are |
| Allow students to eat in every class |
| Put students in a class with their friends |
| Students can make their own lesson plans |
| Students can teach the class |
| Have on free period once a week |
| Allow students to be on their phones |
| Have one class every week to do nothing |
| Play games that have to do with the lesson |
| Do ice breakers throughout the entire school year |
| Teachers should teach the lesson online |
| Have an incentive for completing class work |
| Give homework passes |
| Give passes on an assignment if you pass a test |
| Take one test per quarter |
| Limit lesson plans to 30 mins |
| Play games that have to do with the lesson |
| Play background music of students choice |
| Get enough sleep the night before |
| Make lessons easier to comprehend |
| let students enroll in classes that they are good in |
| let students enroll in classes with their favorite teachers |
| assign ap classes to students with a 4.0 gpa or higher |
| reduce the level of classes at a college level |
| Connect school subjects with your interests |
| Cut down class time |
| More 1-8 Days |
| Teachers should allow class time to work on homework |
| Teachers should provide courtesy snacks for students |
| Listen to music while still paying attention in class |
| Teachers can do more hands-on work |
| Teachers can give more visuals during their lesson |
| Bring snacks to keep you up |
| only allow teachers to work if they were at the top of their class |
| Teachers should use the smart boards more |
| Have three classes a day for a hour and have one class on Friday’s |
| Teachers should be more flexible with rules and expectations |
| Shorten the school day to 4-5 hours |
| make lessons a week long |
| have practice tests |
| Students should help create lesson plans |
| Students could volunteer to help teach the lesson |
| connect lessons to students personal life’ |
| Teacher should have a great sense of humor |
| More field trips should be improvised |
| Students should create some type of student embodied organization |
| Have more class oriented events |
| Teachers should be excited about teaching |
| Teachers should have juice machines in class |
| hire more teachers that relate to the background of the students |
| give a heads up on new lesson so students are better prepared |
| Teachers should not repeat classroom material |
| Utilize technology |
| Make lessons interactive |
| Teachers should not make teaching so serious |
| switch teachers every semester |
| take field trips that have to do with lessons |
| incorporate mystery into the lesson |
| less lecturing, more conversations |
| sit students by peers that they don’t normally talk to |
| Teachers should assign seating charts |
| Teachers should allow students to use their devices more |
| Teachers should let students have more independent work time |
| Make student of the week |
| Give real world examples during lessons |
| Teachers should input their life story within the lesson |
| Once a month have a free period |
| Make certain things optional |
| Eliminate long drawn out talks |
| Allow talk time don’t make the classroom completely silent |
| Change schedules every semester |
| Push students out of their comfort zones |
| Let students pick their groups when working on assignments |
| Switch seats often |
Top 3:
- Use technology
- Let students use their phones
- Try to use chrome books rather than strictly paperwork.
- Use online gaming such as kahoot and quizlet live.
- Cut down class time
- Give more breaks in class
- Set aside time for other things that is not school related
- Cut down class period to 50 minutes; have more 1-8 days
- Incorporating students interest
- Let students pick who they sit by
- Students can volunteer to teach the lesson
- Students can make their own lesson plans
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