A school in Arlington is experimenting with robots to help put more educators in front of students.
The search for a solution to the shortage of teachers schools face is still well underway --- and one school in Arlington is experimenting with robots to help put more educators in front of kids.
Manara Academy in Arlington has a large population of students new to the United States. They have to learn how to comprehend advanced material and master the basics of the English language all at the same time. "The students who are shy, they're newcomers. They're still developing their English language. And we don't have as many ESL teachers so the idea of having '"'Regi'"' come in and differentiate for those students is pretty powerful," said Anastasia Hayes-Stoker, a teacher.Sign up for NBC DFW newsletters"Regi" is a robot. You may have seen something like him before.
But at Manara Academy, they thought outside the box and used"Regi" to multiply teachers. Just like some schools have teachers in one state teaching students in another over Zoom, Manara is trying it with robots. It's allowing the district to put one of their expert reading instructors in multiple classes and schools all at the same time.
"A teacher could be teaching the whole group and I can be the robot in the corner teaching a small group lesson, where the students are able to get this intense small group training, especially when we're doing the science of teaching reading," said Elina Rios, a teacher.
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