Students involved in this project will work in peer review groups, on-line mentors and mathematics, science, social studies and language arts teachers and a project facilitator to learn the technical writing process and publish technical writing pieces on student designed web page s. Students attending this school do so because they have not been successful in traditional schools. Most have had severe discipline problems and are performing well below grade level at this time. It is difficult to keep these students engaged in learning processes for 45 minutes.
Classes tend to be small.
The enrollment of the school is 125 and class sizes range in size from five to twelve. Each classroom has four Power Macintoshes. Each of these computers will soon have access to the Internet. Access to the Internet is very limited at this time. Instruction will be completed during the first week, followed by guided practice and collaboration for three weeks .