SMARTboard in the Classroom

I know I have mentioned before that my host teacher has a SMARTboard but every week I am able to witness something new he is using it for.

Not only does he do his mathster Vakkas movie productions on the SMARTboard but he also deisplays things like the daily schedule and lessons for other subjects.

Just this past time during a social studies lesson my host teacher listed some vocabulary words the students would be reading about in their chapter. Before reading the chapter the students got into groups and talked with the group about what these words meant. After the students came up with what they though the right definition for the word was all the groups went and wrote their thoughts up on the SMARTboard.

After doing this the students read the chapter and then got back into their groups to talk about the correct definitions of these words based on what they read. This was interesting because my host teacher then wrote the right definitions up on the SMARTboard and so the children were able to see what they thought the definition was and the actual definition and they were able to see how close they were in their guesses.

The children were really interested in seeing the before and after definitions and this is what the SMARTboard allowed them to do!