co-curricular class for 2nd graders with fine motor skills) with 10
minutes per week.
In the MS we use All The Right Type. We introduce it in 5th grade. In 6th
grade they have in class work and homework twice per week throughout 2
quarters ending with a test at the end of 6th grade with the expectation
that the type 35wpm with 90% accuracy after.
Imani Romney-Rosa
Middle School Technology Specialist
Packer Collegiate Institute
Brooklyn, NY 11201
PH: 718 250 0339
http://www.packer.edu
A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> on
Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 8:40 AM -0500 wrote:
>We would like to know how schools deal with keyboarding courses. In our
>school, 2nd -5th grade students spend about 40 minutes per week for the
>first two months of the school year using Type to Learn. After that,
>typing practice is used occasionally either as a filler at the end of a
>period or between other projects.
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>What do your schools do? Are the students proficient by the end of 5th
>grade? Do your students continue with instruction in Middle School?
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>Thank you.
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>Rita Kaufman
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>Director of Technology
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>Solomon Schechter Lower School
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>30 Dellwood Road
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>White Plains, NY 10605
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>914-948-3111 FAX 914-948-4356
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>rkaufman@solomon-schechter.com
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