Northern Vance High School: Case Study

Northern Vance High School is one of three high schools in Vance County alongside 17 others schools from Elementary and Middle Schools with majority of them being traditional public schools. Northern Vance has about 1160 students who attend the school; with the class size ranging from 18 to 26 students. Northern Vance High School is located in a rural area near a small highway surrounded by restaurants and gas stations. There are roughly 77 classroom teachers. There is a turnover rate of 35 %. 40% of the teachers have been teaching for 10 years or more; While 42% have been only teaching about three years or less. Just about 93% of the student show up to school on a daily bases while the other 7% show up sparsely. There are approximately 17% …show more content…
Nowadays a lot of schools are relying on technology to help promote better learning and keeping up with trends.
Technology in the classroom isn’t necessary a good thing or a bad thing. Technology does allow students to have access to different types of information online. But on the other hand technology in the classroom also allow students to have access to sites that are not school related which could stunt learning. I’m the type of educator who feels like books and encyclopedias should be in the classroom instead of technology. Technology is also more expensive; if the school systems cannot afford to by materials for classroom learning then they should not be adding technology into classrooms. Next technology impacts bullying/cyberbullying in the most traumatic way possible. Technology allows students to say mean and hurtful things to someone without physically saying it to their face. They can gang up on someone and edit pictures to destroy the others reputation. Technology lets students torment, threaten, harass, humiliate, embarrassed or targeted on another. Technology makes it easy to destroy a person and with mobile phones, ipads, computers, tablets within reach no one