How to Use the Whiteboard Effectively
Summary
TLDRThis video script is a comprehensive guide for teachers on effectively utilizing whiteboards in language classrooms. It underscores the dual importance of whiteboards in providing visual language cues and catering to various learning styles. The script advises on organizing the whiteboard into designated areas for objectives, homework, vocabulary, and grammar, enhancing lesson clarity. Practical tips include printing clearly, using large letters for visibility, facing the class while writing, and employing different colors or symbols for emphasis. The script concludes with the necessity of practice to master whiteboard usage as a teaching tool.
Takeaways
- 📝 **Whiteboard as a Teaching Tool**: The whiteboard is crucial for providing visual information to supplement verbal teaching.
- 👀 **Supporting Different Learning Styles**: The whiteboard caters to visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners by offering a visual representation of language.
- 🔄 **Capturing Lesson Dynamics**: Unlike PowerPoint, the whiteboard allows for dynamic input, capturing student responses and the flow of the lesson.
- 📌 **Highlighting Key Points**: It helps to emphasize important concepts, aiding student retention and comprehension.
- 🧩 **Organizational Structure**: Having a clear plan for how to use the whiteboard space effectively prevents confusion and enhances its utility.
- 📑 **Designated Areas**: The script suggests dividing the whiteboard into sections like objectives, homework, vocabulary, and grammar for organized note-taking.
- 🔠 **Printing Over Cursive**: Printing is recommended over cursive writing to ensure clarity and readability for all students.
- 🌐 **Size Matters**: Text on the whiteboard should be large enough for students at the back of the class to read comfortably.
- 🤔 **Engagement Over Isolation**: Teachers should avoid turning their back to the class while writing; instead, they should face the students to maintain engagement.
- 👈 **Left-Handed Challenge**: Left-handed teachers face unique challenges with whiteboard use and need to be extra conscious of their posture to maintain eye contact.
- 🖌 **Color Coding**: Using different colors for various elements can help highlight and differentiate between subjects, verbs, and other parts of speech.
- 📈 **Visual Aids**: Incorporating diagrams and symbols can enhance the explanation of grammatical structures or vocabulary.
- 📉 **Avoid Slanted Writing**: Writing should be kept straight and parallel to the whiteboard lines to prevent students from straining to read.
- 🧲 **Utilize Magnetic Surfaces**: If the whiteboard is magnetic, use magnets to display flashcards, pictures, or diagrams for the class.
- 🧼 **Maintain Cleanliness**: A clean whiteboard ensures that the writing is clear and visible to all students.
- ✏️ **Check Markers Regularly**: Regularly check that markers are working properly to avoid faded writing that is hard to read.
- 💪 **Practice Makes Perfect**: Effective use of the whiteboard is a skill that requires practice to master.
Q & A
What is the primary purpose of using a whiteboard in a language classroom?
-The primary purpose of using a whiteboard in a language classroom is to provide students with supplementary visual information for what the teacher is saying, allowing students to see the language as well as hear it, which is essential for thorough language learning.
How does the whiteboard support different student learning styles?
-The whiteboard supports different student learning styles by catering to visual learners with its visual representation of language, auditory learners through verbal explanations, and kinesthetic learners by allowing them to actively engage with the language on the board.
What is the advantage of using a whiteboard over PowerPoint for teaching?
-A whiteboard allows for a more fluid representation of the lesson's progression, enabling teachers to elicit and capture student responses visually. In contrast, PowerPoint presentations are pre-prepared and do not allow for the same level of dynamic interaction and visual representation of student input.
How can a whiteboard be used to highlight key points during a lesson?
-A whiteboard can be used to highlight key points by writing them down and drawing attention to them during the lesson. This helps focus students on the most important information and aids in their retention of the material.
What organizational structure is suggested for using a whiteboard effectively?
-An effective organizational structure for using a whiteboard includes designating specific areas for objectives, homework, vocabulary, grammar, and a central working space. This helps keep the information organized and accessible for students.
Why is it important to print rather than write on the whiteboard?
-Printing on the whiteboard is important because it is clearer and easier for students to read compared to cursive writing. It ensures that the information is legible for all students, including those sitting at the back of the classroom.
What is the recommended print size for whiteboard writing to ensure visibility?
-The recommended print size for whiteboard writing is large enough to be read from the back of the classroom. Teachers should check their print size from the back to ensure it is visible to all students.
Why should teachers avoid turning their back on the class while writing on the whiteboard?
-Teachers should avoid turning their back on the class while writing on the whiteboard to maintain engagement and interaction with students. It is important to face the class and not become too absorbed in the writing process.
What challenges do left-handed teachers face when using a whiteboard and how can they be addressed?
-Left-handed teachers may naturally turn their back to the class while writing on the whiteboard due to the direction of their writing hand. To address this, they can either reach across the board and turn their head to face the class or write from the opposite side, which may require more practice to ensure legibility.
How can using different colored markers enhance the teaching process on a whiteboard?
-Using different colored markers can help illustrate key points, grammar structures, or vocabulary more clearly. It allows for visual differentiation of sentence components or concepts, aiding in student comprehension.
What are some tips for maintaining good whiteboard hygiene and ensuring visibility of writing?
-To maintain good whiteboard hygiene and ensure visibility, teachers should clean the board at the start of every class, use markers that work well without fading, and avoid writing at an angle that makes reading difficult for students.
Why is practice recommended for using a whiteboard effectively?
-Practice is recommended for using a whiteboard effectively because it helps teachers become comfortable with the tool, improve their writing clarity, and ensure that the information presented is easy to read and understand for all students.
Outlines
📚 Introduction to the Whiteboard as a Teaching Tool
This paragraph introduces the whiteboard as an essential tool for teachers, highlighting its role in providing supplementary visual information to students. It emphasizes the importance of mastering the use of the whiteboard to be an effective teacher. The session aims to discuss the role of the whiteboard in language classrooms, how to organize it, and various tips for using it during teaching. The whiteboard is crucial as it supports different learning styles, including visual, auditory, and kinesthetic, and allows for the fluid representation of lesson content, capturing student responses and key points effectively.
📐 Organizing the Whiteboard for Effective Teaching
The paragraph discusses the importance of having a clear organizational structure when using the whiteboard. It suggests dividing the whiteboard into sections such as objectives, homework, vocabulary, and grammar. The speaker shares their method of organizing the whiteboard into four corners and a central working space. They emphasize the need to keep the whiteboard organized to avoid confusion and ensure that students can easily locate the information presented. Tips for using the working space include using columns and rows to structure information clearly.
✍️ Writing Techniques for Better Whiteboard Clarity
This section provides tips on how to write on the whiteboard to ensure clarity and readability. It advises using printed letters rather than cursive writing and ensuring that the print size is large enough for students at the back of the class to see. The paragraph also stresses the importance of not turning one's back on the class while writing, suggesting ways to maintain eye contact and engage with students. Additionally, it addresses the challenges faced by left-handed teachers and offers solutions for maintaining proper posture and visibility while writing.
🖍️ Enhancing Visibility with Color and Diagrams
The paragraph focuses on using different colored markers to highlight key points, grammar structures, or vocabulary. It provides an example of how to use color coding to differentiate parts of a sentence when teaching grammar. The speaker also suggests using symbols or underlining systems when colors are not available, and emphasizes the importance of keeping writing parallel to the lines of the whiteboard for better readability. They mention the use of diagrams to visually represent relationships in sentence analysis.
🧹 Maintaining a Clean and Well-Equipped Whiteboard
The final paragraph offers practical advice on maintaining a clean whiteboard and ensuring that markers are in good working condition. It suggests using magnets if the whiteboard surface is magnetic to display flashcards or diagrams. The speaker also recommends cleaning the whiteboard at the start of each class and checking markers before each lesson. They conclude by emphasizing the need for practice in using the whiteboard effectively, suggesting that teachers should practice their writing and organization on the whiteboard before class.
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Keywords
💡Whiteboard
💡Visual Information
💡Learning Styles
💡Organization
💡Key Points
💡Print vs. Write
💡Column and Row
💡Markers
💡Magnetic Surface
💡Practice
Highlights
The Whiteboard is a key tool for teachers to provide supplementary visual information.
Whiteboards support different student learning styles: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic.
Whiteboards allow for fluid representation of lesson dynamics, unlike pre-set PowerPoint presentations.
Highlighting key points on the whiteboard helps students focus and remember lesson content.
Organizing the whiteboard space is crucial to prevent confusion and enhance its effectiveness.
Designate specific areas on the whiteboard for objectives, homework, vocabulary, and grammar.
Use the middle space of the whiteboard as a working area for ongoing lesson activities.
Organize the working space in columns and rows for clarity.
Print, rather than write, on the whiteboard to make text more legible for students.
Ensure that text size on the whiteboard is large enough for students at the back of the class to see.
Avoid turning your back on the class while writing on the whiteboard to maintain engagement.
Left-handed teachers should be extra conscious to not turn away from the class while writing.
Use different colored markers to illustrate key points or grammar structures.
If no colored markers are available, use different symbols or underlining systems to emphasize points.
Keep your writing parallel to the lines of the whiteboard to prevent students from straining to read.
Utilize magnetic surfaces of whiteboards to stick up flashcards, pictures, or diagrams.
Ensure the whiteboard is clean at the start of every class for better visibility of written content.
Check that whiteboard markers are working well and replace them when necessary to maintain clarity.
Practice using the whiteboard before lessons to improve comfort and effectiveness as a teaching tool.
Transcripts
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the Whiteboard or any similar surface
for writing on is a really key tool for
teachers to master in order to be
effective as a teacher a whiteboard
allows us to give students supplementary
visual information for what we're saying
so in this session we're going to take a
quick look at some of the key things to
keep in mind when you're using your
whiteboard as you teach
language we'll start by briefly
discussing the role of the Whiteboard as
a teaching tool in the language
classroom then we'll take a look at how
to organize your whiteboard and finally
we'll look at different tips to keep in
mind as you're teaching and using your
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whiteboard the Whiteboard is a really
important tool for us as teachers for
two main reasons first of all the
Whiteboard allows us to provide students
with the visual side of the language as
we speak and interact with our students
we're providing students with the verbal
piece of the language or the verbal side
of the language the Whiteboard or any
similar writing surface allows us to
provide the visual side of the language
so students hear the language and then
when we put something on our whiteboard
or similar surface they get the visual
side of the language they need both
sides of the language to thoroughly
learn that language whether it's English
or any other language the Whiteboard
also allows us to better support
different student learning styles if you
recall there are three sensory
preference learning styles that students
may have one is visual one is auditory
and one is kinesthetic so the Whiteboard
allows us to support students who have a
visual learning style so these are
students that like to see what they're
learning we're automatically supporting
students with an auditory learning style
as we speak and deliver the lesson so
the Whiteboard allows us to hit the
visual Styles as well interestingly a
whiteboard also allows us to support
students with a kinesthetic learning
style because we can get those students
up here at the Whiteboard and uh
actively digesting or processing the
language as they write on the Whiteboard
so the Whiteboard or a similar surface
is really good for supporting those
different student learning
styles there's another real strength to
the Whiteboard or a similar writing
surface and that is it allows us to
fluidly represent what's going on in the
lesson in a visual manner you may like
to use PowerPoint as you teach your
lessons and PowerPoint definitely has
some strengths to it but the strength of
the Whiteboard is that it allows us to
elicit information from the class and
then get that information up here on the
Whiteboard so it really allows us to
visually capture the fluidity of the
lesson and we get to capture student
student answers here on the Whiteboard
with a PowerPoint on the on the other
hand we don't manage to capture student
answers because we've already prepar the
PowerPoint beforehand so this is another
strength of the Whiteboard as a teaching
tool it allows us to capture student
answers visually as the class
progresses another really important use
of the Whiteboard is it allows us to
highlight the key points that we're
trying to make throughout our lesson and
as we highlight those key points we can
focus students attention on those key
points and they can then better remember
what we're trying to teach so one of the
uses of a whiteboard is to really um
highlight or get the key information up
here and students can pay attention to
it and focus on it and walking at the
door at the end of the class students
know that whatever went up here on the
Whiteboard is what they should have
learned and what they need to remember
and retain so that's another key
important use of the Whiteboard is to
focus students on those key points of
your lesson
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the starting point with using your
whiteboard as a teaching tool is to have
in your head a really clear picture or
organizational structure for how you're
going to use all of this space that
you've got if you just use it your space
randomly so you decide okay I'm going to
put something here and then I'm going to
put something down here and something up
here it gets really confusing for
students and you actually start to
negate the useful of the Whiteboard as a
teaching tool so have a clear picture in
your head in terms of how you're going
to organize what actually goes up here
so I'm going to walk you through how I
organize a whiteboard you might choose
to do it a little bit differently but
this gives you an idea of what I mean
when I say organize your whiteboard so
with a whiteboard I kind of designated
into the Four Corners here here here and
here and then this big middle space is
my working space my whiteboard is quite
a bit smaller than the one you're
probably going to be working with but I
can at least show you how to kind of
block the the different pieces of the
Whiteboard off so I start with my
objectives for the lesson and they go up
here in this corner so I'm going to
write
objectives up at the top of my
whiteboard and then I'm going to list my
objectives for the
lesson and then as my lesson progresses
I'm actually going to check off the
objectives that we've covered so when we
cover objective number one I check that
off when we cover objective number two I
check that off and when we covered
objective number three I check that off
then I designate the space down here as
my homework space so this is where I
indicate what homework students have to
complete and then the next day or the
next class when students come in we work
through that homework and we check that
off as well so this is my homework
space down here and I list my homework
items and then once we mark them or
correct them the next day I check those
off as well then we've got this space
over here
and up
here I designate this as my vocabulary
space so as we're working through the
lesson and any new vocabulary items come
up I write those words down on the
vocabulary section of the Whiteboard I
don't put the meanings down I just put
the words there so that students can
remember okay these are the words we
learned in this lesson and these are the
words that I need to remember
so as new vocabulary items come up I
write them in the vocabulary section
then I also
designate another section of my
whiteboard down here as my grammar
section and this is where I write any
key grammatical structures that we learn
or that students have questions about
and as they come up in the lesson I
write them down here so students once
again remember hey these are the key
things from this lesson that I need to
remember so my grammar goes down there
and then the space behind me if I had a
bigger whiteboard this would be a bigger
space obviously but this is my working
space so as we're working through
questions or we're taking up answers to
things or I'm teaching a grammar Point
all of my working uh visual information
goes here and I might erase this three
four five or six times during a lesson
so these other space
tend to stay up throughout the lesson
but this working space this is where I
do all of the ongoing work as the lesson
progresses so this is just one way that
you can organize your whiteboard space
so that students know where to find
everything that you presenting visually
to them throughout the
lesson when you're using the working
space of your whiteboard so if you
recall I said that I kind of keep the
middle part of my whiteboard as my
working space when you're using this
also think about how you're going to
organize that work working space and one
really good tip to keep in mind is to
think about can you put things into
columns and rows whenever possible so
here's an example if I'm teaching my
students um simple present for everyday
actions or routines or something like
that I'm going to write my columns along
the top and then my example sentences in
rows underneath those columns so it
looks like this so when I'm making a
simple present sentence um I'm going to
have a subject so I have my subject here
and then I'm going to have my verb in
the simple
present and because I'm talking about
everyday actions I'm going to have my
time marker or my frequency marker okay
so I'll call that my frequency
marker okay and then underneath this I'm
going to put my example sentences she
that's my subject
swims that's my verb in simple present
notice the s for my third person and
then every
day is my frequency marker and I might
put another example
he
runs and once again we need our s
because it's third person singular once
a
month so whenever you're using your
working space try and keep that as
organized as possible as well use
columns and rows and things like
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that I'm going to take you through some
tips to keep in mind as you're using
your whiteboard as a teaching tool these
tips also work for any similar surface
that you're writing on as your lesson
progresses like a Blackboard or a
Smartboard so the first tip to keep in
mind is to print not write I'm going to
show you the difference between writing
versus printing so that you can see that
the printing is actually the much better
option because students can read this
more easily so here's the same sentence
I'm just teaching simple present for
example and I want to write an example
sentence here's that sentence in writing
versus Printing and you can see the
clarity difference so um if I'm writing
it I
get she
swims every day that's my writing versus
my
printing
she
swims every day so the printing should
hopefully be better to read or easier to
read and writing when we're going along
tends to also go up on an angle more
easily than the printing does so the
printing is definitely the better way to
go also don't do a mixture of printing
and writing either make sure you keep it
all printing so no writing when you're
doing the Whiteboard use
printing the second tip is to make sure
that you're printing on the White board
is large enough for students sitting at
the very very back of your room to see
there's no point in putting information
up on the Whiteboard if it's so tiny
that students actually can't read it so
in order to check whether your printing
is large enough print in your usual
print size on the Whiteboard and then go
to the back of the classroom and make
sure you can actually read it so just to
give you an idea of the difference um
here's the same sentence she swims every
day in larger print versus smaller print
and obviously the larger print is easier
to read
so she
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swims every
day that's a fairly good size to be seen
from the back of the classroom whereas
this
one
is a little bit too small for students
right at the back to see so make sure
that your print size is big enough for
students to see from the back of your
classroom this next tip is one that I
always have trouble following and that
is don't turn your back on the class as
you're writing on the Whiteboard I
always make a joke and say oh you're
having a great conversation with the
Whiteboard while you're teaching so what
you don't want to do is this so you
don't want to turn your
back on the class and then have a great
conversation with your whiteboard as
you're writing okay that's not very good
so your students don't want to see the
back of your head your back what you
have to do and this is something you
constantly have to remind yourself to do
is find a way to write and kind of open
yourself up so that you can see the
class as you write so you want to do
something like this so she
swims every
day so you want to get yourself to the
side somehow as you're writing and
sometimes you'll sort of turn into the
board but don't fully turn into the
board like that so make sure you don't
have a conversation with your whiteboard
as you're writing on the
board the third tip is just for people
who are left-handed unfortunately
writing left-handed on the Whiteboard is
even more of a challenge than writing
right-handed on the Whiteboard is
because it's far more difficult to not
have a conversation with your whiteboard
if you're writing with your left hand so
I'll show you what this looks like um
and I'll show you what you have to be
really careful of if you are a lefty I
am not naturally a lefty so um no
comment about the quality of my writing
here but I'll I'll demonstrate the
challenge that comes with being a lefty
and using the Whiteboard so when you're
a left-handed you have to reach across
and you automatically kind of turn your
back on the class and you automatically
have that conversation with the
Whiteboard so you have to be extra
conscious of you one of your choices is
to reach out across like this and then
turn your neck or turn your head so
you're going to do something whoa my
right my left-handed writing is not very
good um okay so let me try that again so
you're going to do you're going to reach
right across like
this and keep checking in with your
class as you
write so she
swims that's pretty bad left-handed
writing the other option is to take it
from the other side actually and you're
going to go this way as you write so
here's what that looks like so you're
going to write this way
so that you're more this is really bad
off handed writing uh so that you're
more naturally
turned towards your class the problem
with this one is you're right your arm
tends to hide a little bit what you're
writing but it does allow you to make
sure that you face the class more often
than you do if you're writing this way
so if you're a left-hander I'll let you
play around with that but just always
keep in mind uh with lefties it's much
easier to unfor fortunately turn your
back to the class and have that
conversation with the Whiteboard so make
sure you don't do
that another thing to keep in mind as
you're using your whiteboard or a
similar writing surface is to use
different colored markers if possible in
order to further illustrate the key
points you're making or the grammar
structures or words that you're teaching
so as an example if I'm teaching simple
present as a habitual action or routine
I'm using my sentence she swims every
day I could use different colored
markers to show different parts of my
sentence so um for example I'm going to
use um black for my
subject and then I'm going to put my
verb in
Orange okay and then I'm going to put my
frequency marker in
blue so
she swims every day and then if I put
another example under there I'm going to
follow the same code okay so I'm going
to put he he's my that's my subject
that's in black and I'm going to use
yellow or sorry I'm color blind here
that's
orange okay and then I'm going to use um
oh you know what I'm going to change
that verb a bit hang on a second I'm not
going to do play I am going to do run
that makes my sentence easier so my verb
is run so I'm going to put that in
Orange and then
my frequency is
once a week and that goes in blue so use
your colors if you've got them very
strategically to illustrate or to
diagram the different components of what
it is you're teaching in this case I'm
teaching different parts of a simple
present sentence and I've got three
different colors that I'm
using if you don't have different colors
you can still illustrate things visually
but instead of using different colors
you're going to use different symbols or
underlining systems so going back to our
sentence she swims every day I don't
have any different colors I just have
black so I'm going to use a different
symbol code in order to show the
different pieces of my sentence so my
subject I'm going to put in black and
I'm going to leave it plain okay and
then my verb I'm going to underline okay
and then every
day
I'm going to put a squiggly line
underneath it the other thing I can do
with my whiteboard is I can use diagram
so if I want to somehow show the
relationship whoops um here between my
subject and then my word ending I can
use circles and arrows and diagrams to
really visually represent the
relationship that I'm trying to
demonstrate with my sentence analysis so
if you don't have different colors use
different diagrams and underl Ling
systems to make your points as you're
analyzing the structures or the
vocabulary that you're
teaching and another tip and
unfortunately I'm guilty of this and
you'll probably see it on the video try
not to have your writing either make a
an upward angle or a downward angle so
try and keep your writing parallel to
the lines of the Whiteboard you don't
want your students kind of having to do
this in order to read what you write so
don't do
this where my writing is clearly going
on an angle um try and keep
it
parallel and straight I'm guilty of this
one it's not quite as easy to write as
write straight as you might think but
this is another thing to keep in
mind a couple of final tips for using
your whiteboard some whiteboard surfaces
and Blackboard surfaces are magnetic so
if this is the case with the surface
that you're using take advantage of it I
don't have any on me but um you can
purchase little tiny magnets and you can
stick things up on your surface using
the magnets so for example you can put
flashcards up and then put a magnet on
top you can put pictures or diagrams up
and just put it up there for the whole
class to see so if your writing surface
is magnetic make use of
it the next tip may sound a little bit
obvious but you'd be surprised how many
teachers unfortunately get caught in
this situation make sure your white
whiteboard is clean unfortunately an
unclean whiteboard simply means that the
the colors that you're writing on there
don't jump out and students actually
can't see them so make sure that your
whiteboard is clean um if you don't have
a cleaning staff in your program make
sure you've got yourself um things to
keep your whiteboard clean there's
sprays that you can use obviously a
whiteboard eraser and so on so make sure
your board is clean at the start of
every
class the last tip is another fairly
obvious one but every teacher gets
caught in this situation as well make
sure your whiteboard markers work
unfortunately once the markers start to
run out and they run out fairly quickly
um it's very difficult to see what
you're writing from the back of the
classroom it just starts to fade more
and more and more as you use up the
marker so always make sure that your
markers work check them either at the
end of every class or the beginning of
every class and if they're running out
get rid of them and get some new ones
we've gone through the reason why the
Whiteboard is a really useful teaching
tool or the Whiteboard or any similar
surface we've gone through what to put
on your whiteboard and how to organize
your whiteboard and then finally some
tips to keep in mind as you're using
your whiteboard I'm going to leave you
with one final tip using a whiteboard
effectively is not something that comes
naturally to anyone it's something that
you have to practice so it may sound
ridiculous but before a lesson coming in
a bit early get up there at your
whiteboard and practice writing the
different things that you're going to
use your whiteboard for practice
practice practice so that your writing
is much easier make sure it's clear and
easy to read and just make sure you're
comfortable using this as a teaching
tool it does not come naturally you've
got to practice
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