Teaching Tip
Creating Individual Blackboards (Virtual Tour)
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 1: Beginning LiteracyStage 3: Literacy for Growth
Ages:
5-12
Grade Range:
K 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6thFood Groups:
Primary: Classroom Tips, Motivation for Literacy
Transcript
This is a teaching tip that arose out of my frustration of finding a way for the children to communicate with me individually as I'm teaching a large group or a small group lesson. Conventionally, teachers use white boards, but white board are expensive, and children tend to leave the caps off of markers, I also don't want to use paper unnecessarily. So what I did, is I used clipboards that I bought at the dollar store that I had in my classroom anyway. And I thought I would use this surface and paint it with blackboard paint, so that the children could generate individual content and answers and show me so that I could give them feedback right away. I use this for both math and literacy. In math of course, you can do, this is an example of a grade two with two-digit addition and subtraction. At this point in the year, I give this board to the child as they come in the classroom in the morning, and their requirement before morning announcements is to complete this correctly. For literacy, for example, I do word games. This is an example of changing a cat into a pig. And these are word games where you change simply one letter at a time and move from the word cat to the word pig. And these, the children find very motivating because they each get to do it and I give them feedback right away as they're doing it.
Activity Objective
The goal of Teaching Tip: Creating Individual Blackboards (Virtual Tour) is to provide engaging opportunities for students to share their ideas through written expression.
Quick Tips
Additional Comments:
- Using individual blackboards during whole group and small group instruction is an excellent way for the students to communicate their thinking. - When using the individual blackboards provide students with feedback on their learning. Ongoing and descriptive feedback is an informal approach to assessing student learning. - The individual blackboards can be used for a variety of subject areas and activities.
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