My co-teacher uses her interactive white board everyday, for majority of her lessons. She uses it for morning meetings, and within her morning meetings she does a lot of teaching. Her morning meetings have interactive graphs the students can fill in, and word/number blanks that she has students fill in independently. I have learned a lot from her skills with the interactive white board. She changes it but also keeps it the same so they students can become very comfortable with the board. The students know how to click on the right corner and delete something that they no longer want on the board.
I also saw how the art teacher uses her interactive white board, she was hanging paper art work on the interactive white board. The board was never on she used it as a bulletin board almost to show the students what they should be doing in art class. The art teacher was using crayons and paper on the interactive white board.
Do you have interactive white boards in your class, if so how are they used?
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ReplyDeleteYes, there are interactive white boards in my classroom. They are used in multiple ways. One way they use it is for a program called Go Noodle. This is a website that the teacher can go to and play a video. The video is interactive and incorporates some sort of exercise that the children do. My teacher will do this to allow the students to get out their energy. It allows the children to release energy and concentrate on the lesson more. My teacher also uses the interactive whiteboard to introduce the lesson for the week. There is a 60 second video incorporating the lesson that she plays. The children all sit on their carpet spots and can watch the video on the white board screen
ReplyDeleteYikes, Lydia...you need to get to that art teacher and do an interactive WB intervention. That is a shameful waste of technology funds.
ReplyDeleteThere is an interactive white board in my classroom, the students art class, and music class. My CT uses it for almost every lesson and the students are really engaged in the lessons. Besides lessons my CT uses them for gonoodle zumba and sing alongs for the students. The art teacher at my school uses it to show them how to draw certain objects. I was very impressed with it because you have to be a skilled artist to be able to draw detailed pictures on the smart board.
ReplyDeleteYes, my CT uses the interactive whiteboard from almost everything from the moment the students walk in the door to the moment they walk out of the door to go home. My CT uses it for checking in, all the lessons, and even when they are reading a book for the first time. The only think that my CT doesn't use it for is for is when they are doing read to self and word work. The student love learning especially when they get to use the interactive white board!
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