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Community of Practice: Ore Valley Elementary School
I teach among six fifth-grade teachers working at Ore Valley Elementary School. Our district, Dallastown Area School District, is located in the heart of York County in South Central Pennsylvania. We house over 800 students, Kindergarten through 5th grade. In self-contained classrooms, teachers are responsible for teaching heterogeneously grouped students in all content areas. Teachers at my school are expected to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all students using flexible grouping, differentiation strategies and available instructional technology.
Each classroom is equipped with a variety of instructional technology including teacher and student laptops with full wireless access, SMART Boards, Student Response Devices, Digital Cameras, a variety of online database resources like Reading AtoZ and UnitedStreaming, and open source access. Even with an ample amount of resources, technology is not being utilized as an instructional and educational tool in most classrooms. This is due to the fact that our district is lacking the instructional support teachers need to learn and use technology as an instructional tool.
