Sound Enhanced Classroom Technology

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Sound Enhanced Classroom Technology
To Maximize Teacher Performance Student
Achievement

• Learning Benefits
• Research Review

Jeff Anderson Audio Enhancement
1-800-383-9362 Jeff_at_AudioEnhancement.com
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The Effect Audio Enhancement Has On Classroom
Learning

• Dramatically improved student achievement,
  especially with targeted NCLB students
• Has helped schools nationwide meet and exceed
  Federal mandated improvement standards Adequate
  Yearly Progress -AYP

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What Happens When Students Cant Hear?

• National Geographic Reports
• A Cornell University Study

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Cornell University Conclusion

• If students can not focus on the spoken work of
  the teacher, students not only loose the desire
  to learn but also the ability
• Poor acoustics can interfere with the students
  development of spoken language, reading and
  writing skills, and academic performance
• Evans, Community Noise Exposure and Stress in
  Children (Journal Acoustical Society of
  America, 2001)

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The Problem

• Discussion of the Needs of Todays Modern
  Classroom

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The Problem

• Failing Schools, Failing Students
• Lack of Improvement for Targeted NCLB Students
• Not Meeting AYP
• Teacher Absenteeism Vocal Fatigue
• Student Misbehavior
• Increased Class Size
• Environmental factors
• Acoustics
• Noise

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The Solution

• How Do We Address These Needs?

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Enhance The Learning Environment

• Use of Audio Enhancement technology
• Infrared wireless microphone on teacher
• Ceiling speakers distributed evenly
• 360 degree infrared sensors
• Infrared receiver/amplifier in room
• Infrared student pass around microphone
• Integration with multi-media technologies

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What Is an Audio Enhanced Classroom?
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Enhancement vs. Amplification

• Traditional amplification system
• Amplifies and makes the voice or presentation
  louder but not necessarily clear and
  understandable
• Enhancement system
• Distributes the voice evenly throughout the
  listening environment
• Voice is clear and understandable regardless of
  physical position of speaker and listener

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What Happens?

• What Happens to the Classroom Environment With
  Audio Enhancement?

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What Happens?

• Ideal teaching environment
• One-on-one instruction
• Allow students to hear and understand information
  given
• Eliminate distance
• Teacher can speak in nurturing tones
• Teacher can be heard over disturbances

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Students Hearing

• Adults have a distinct advantage in audio
  processing
• Childrens auditory network not developed until
  15
• Adults have life experience that fills in the
  blanks
• Children DO NOT have the years of experience
• Children have difficulty performing
  auditory-cognitive closure

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Students Hearing

• Human speech is filled with
  gaps.
• There are gaps in sound and meaning when we
  speak. In adults who have the benefit of
  experience, the brain automatically fills in the
  gaps and makes language meaningful.

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How Do Students Listen Differently From Adults?

• Better to be safe than
• Dont bite the hand that
• You cant teach an old dog new
• A penny saved is
• Children should be seen and not
• If at first you dont succeed

• Punch a 5th Grader
• Looks dirty
• math
• Not much
• Spanked or grounded
• Get new batteries

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Teacher Absenteeism Decline With Audio
Enhancement Systems

• Iowa Teacher had a 36 decline in teacher
  absenteeism. Lower teacher complaints of vocal
  fatigue sick leave for voice, jaw, throat
  problems
• - Allen, Dubuque Iowa Public Schools, 1996
• A study of nationwide school districts showed up
  to a 30 decrease in teacher absenteeism when
  using sound enhancement
• BYU, Department of Marriage Family Human
  Development, 2003

Substantial financial savings in substitute
teacher pay uninterrupted student learning
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Environment

• What Role Does the Environment Play?

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Distance Matters

• Sound decreases over distance
• 6 db every time distance is doubled
• Inverse Square Law

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Research Based Results

• Anaheim Public Schools, CA
• Orange County Public Schools, FL
• Denver Public Schools, CO
• Jeffco Public Schools, CO
• Oakland Public Schools, MI
• Salt Lake City Area Schools

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Improved Teacher Instruction Student
Achievement Oakland ISD

• Intermediate schools showed minimum of 10 gains
• 4 years of data following implementation
• 75 of all classrooms sound enhanced in the
  district
• Edwards, Office of Student Services, Oakland ISD
  Sound Field report, 2003

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Improved Teacher Instruction Student
Achievement OCPS (FL) Secondary Schools

• 3-year historical gains study reported improved
  student achievement with 6th7th8th grade
  students.
• 10-11 minimum gain as measured by FCAT (Bernier,
  Odyssey Middle School, Orange County Public
  Schools, FL 2003)
• (Clark, Orange County Public Schools, FL, 2002)

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Improved Teacher Instruction Student
Achievement OCPS (FL) Elementary Schools

• Urban Title-I schools - Reversal in student
  performance are in Urban Title-I schools Orange
  County Public Schools, Orlando, Florida
• Increased student achievement 10 to 15 as
  measured by FCAT

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Orange County Public Schools Reverse Failing
Scores 3rd Grade
Math
Reading
Before - 2001-02
14 Improvement
16 Improvement
After - 2002-03
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Orange County Public Schools Reverse Failing
Scores 4th Grade
Math
Reading
Before - 2001-02
13 Improvement
11 Improvement
After - 2002-03
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Orange County Public Schools Reverse Failing
Scores 5th Grade
Math
Reading
Before - 2001-02
29 Improvement
24 Improvement
After - 2002-03
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Improved Teacher Instruction Student
Achievement Anaheim (CA) Elementary Schools

• Multiple year study of 3rd and 4th grade student
  cohorts reported up to 15 gains in reading,
  math, language and spelling over a 3-year period
  as measured with Stanford-9 Achievement Tests.
• (Boggs McClanahan, Anaheim Public Schools, CA,
  2003)

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Literacy and Math Gains Anaheim, CA Public School
3rd and 4th Grades
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Improved Teacher Instruction Student
Achievement Salt Lake County Elementary
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English Secondary Language (ESL/ELL) Students
Learn Better

• 3-Year Academic Growth of student cohort in audio
  enhanced classrooms (Salt Lake County, UT)

AVERAGE GAIN 16.25
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High Achieving Schools Also Benefit From Sound
Enhancement
 

• JEFFCO Public Schools - Colorado
• Maple Grove Elementary
• Previously scored in 8th and 9th Stanines
• Assessments increased average of 3.6 after
  implementation of enhancement
• Earned John Irwin school of excellence

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CSAP Test Gains
 
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Improved Phonemic Awareness

• Phonemic Awareness (sounds of spoken language) is
  a prerequisite to successful reading
  comprehension
• Teachers instruction in sound enhanced classrooms
  had significantly improved student development of
  phonemic awareness
• (Flexer, University of Akron,
  2002)

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Denver Public Schools
Teaching to Enhance Listening and Learning
TELL
Student Evaluation Results
YES!
IT IS EASIER TO HEAR MY TEACHER WHEN SHE/HE USES
THE SOUND SYSTEM
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MY TEACHERS VOICE IS LOUD AND CLEAR WITH THE
SOUND SYSTEM
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THE SOUND SYSTEM HELPS ME LISTEN BETTER
WHEN MY TEACHER IS WRITING ON THE BOARD, I CAN
STILL HEAR HIM/HER WITH THE SOUND SYSTEM
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I LIKE HAVING MY TEACHER USE THE SOUND SYSTEM IN
OUR CLASSROOM
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Student Classroom Behavior Improved

• Students in OCPS, Oakland ISD, Salt Lake, Anaheim
  studies noted improved student on-task behavior,
  attention span, and short-term memory retention
  in sound enhanced classrooms
• Coincides with University of West Florida study
  that found sound enhanced classrooms reduced
  off-task student behavior
• (Ryan, University of West Florida, 2002)

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Increased Class Size Did Not Negatively Affect
Student Achievement in Sound Enhanced Classrooms

• Unexpected Class Size Increase of Students
  (15-20) in OCPS, Oakland ISD, Salt Lake, Anaheim
  multiple year studies
• Results showed continued positive student
  achievement of 10-15 on standardized testing
  (Stanford 9s FCAT) regardless of increased size

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Denver Public Schools
Teacher Evaluation Results
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• Some Subjective Analysis

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What Teachers Say

• You can take away my desks and manuals but Ill
  bar the door if you take my amplification
  equipment. Louise Ortberg, Fulton school
• I love my sound field! It has made a huge
  difference in the fatigue level of my voice. It
  is less strained and I have fewer sore throats as
  a result. Sue Emmendorfer
• I found the microphone to be very beneficial when
  reading journals, textbooks, or reading stories.
  The kids volunteer to read out loud a lot more
  when the microphone is in use. Scott Wilkie

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What Principals Say

• Made a significant change in the learning
  environment
• Students more actively engaged in learning
  process
• Teachers spend more time teaching less time
  managing student behaviors
• I believe that the increased scores can be
  directly attributed to the implementation of
  sound enhancement because we made no other
  significant changes in our instructional program
  or staff

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Instructional Equipment Survey
Teachers were asked to rank the following
equipment from 1 to 6 with 1 being the piece of
equipment that has the greatest direct influence
on learning.
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• For further information regarding audio enhanced
  classrooms
• Audio Enhancement
• 800-383-9362
• www.Audioenhancement.com
• info_at_Audioenhancement.com