TEACHER WORKSHOP – BOARD WORK

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