Technology

Tools for learning in today’s world

Today’s learning environment is very different from the schools of yesteryear. In keeping pace with those changes, Charterhouse School is dedicated to providing its students with the current educational technologies for the delivery of instruction.  Each classroom in Charterhouse has four or five networked workstations with Internet access.  Students use these workstations to complete a wide variety of assignments given by classroom teachers throughout the year, such as writing an English paper using Microsoft Word, designing a rocket and testing its flight for a science assignment online at a NASA interactive website, or doing research for a history project. 

Charterhouse subscribes to Discovery Education’s United Streaming which features instructional videos in many subjects.  Currently, our science teachers use United Streaming videos to deliver science instruction to classroom desktops . These videos are aligned with the Virginia science SOLs.

In addition to the classroom workstations, the school has a combination science and computer lab. Charterhouse students receive instruction using computer technology twice a week.  Students receive instruction in Microsoft Office products, including MS Word, Excel, Access, Publisher and PowerPoint. Other activities include making movies using Windows Movie Maker, creating digital collages, making web pages and career-related projects. Students also have one class per week doing remedial math in the computer lab with the math teacher and the technology teacher. In this class, remedial math instruction and drilling is delivered by websites on the internet.

At the end of each nine weeks, SOL tests are administered by an online service.  Read more about the school’s alignment with the Virginia SOLs here.