My company is Cajon Park school. I could not find an official mission statement on their website but they do have this: “Cajon Park inspires meaningful learning through creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking to prepare learners for an ever-changing world.” This basically means that as the world continues to advance in technology and the way we communicate with each other the school promises to also advance and teach the students how to interact and become functional adults in today’s society. This statement is fully supported in the way the students are taught on a daily basis in one way and that is the fact that the students all have Ipads that are district issued and used throughout the day. Yesterday the students and I were doing math review and the way they showed me their work and answers was by going into notes and writing the problems out. When they were finished they held the Ipad up so I could check their answer. Another way they use the Ipads is during english when they are doing vocab they are free to use google to find synonyms, antonyms, and definitions rather than a thesaurus or their textbook like they would have had to do in the past. My mentor, Mrs. Fields, and another teacher Mrs. Vick recently decided to enter a contest to win a 3D printer for one of their classrooms and ended up winning so very soon they will be using that in their teaching process. As the world changed and uses technology more and more in everyday life the teachers have to adapt their lesson plans and teaching skills to match.
In the picture above is some of the students from both classes being read to by a guest teacher with Mrs. Fields sitting in the corner.