The document discusses how whiteboards provide a shared writing space for teachers and students that allows for interactive learning. Teachers can use whiteboards to present new information, record what students say, and emphasize important messages. Students benefit by receiving immediate feedback, competing with peers, measuring their writing against others, and becoming more active participants. Whiteboards are also useful for classroom management tasks like posting schedules, assignments, and rules as well as recording student input during lessons.
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The document discusses how whiteboards provide a shared writing space for teachers and students that allows for interactive learning. Teachers can use whiteboards to present new information, record what students say, and emphasize important messages. Students benefit by receiving immediate feedback, competing with peers, measuring their writing against others, and becoming more active participants. Whiteboards are also useful for classroom management tasks like posting schedules, assignments, and rules as well as recording student input during lessons.
The document discusses how whiteboards provide a shared writing space for teachers and students that allows for interactive learning. Teachers can use whiteboards to present new information, record what students say, and emphasize important messages. Students benefit by receiving immediate feedback, competing with peers, measuring their writing against others, and becoming more active participants. Whiteboards are also useful for classroom management tasks like posting schedules, assignments, and rules as well as recording student input during lessons.
Boards provide a public writing space that is immediately accessible to both teachers and students.
Teachers can use the board to
- Record messages they especially want students to remember
- Present new information - Record what students say
Students using the board can
- Receive immediate feedback
- Personal face-to-face responses - Compete with other students (writing simultaneously) - Measure themselves against their peers’ public writing. - Be active: students on their feet, adds variety to classroom routines… - Increase their share of the classroom.
Using the board…
- for classroom management.
o Homework assignments o Announcements o Schedules and timetables o Special class rules o Group allocation (names and roles) o Classroom roles o Timing for activities o Scores for competitive activities o Outlines of lesson plans and agendas o Information - as a teaching tool o “get-ready-to-learn” provocative quotations/questions, riddles, tongue twisters, scrambled - to record student input