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St. Mary’s School, Waverley – Progress

Dr Christina Preston

St. Mary’s School, Waverley – Progress

 

Interactive Whiteboard Project (Feb – April 2005)

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Author: Jenny Ketley Publication Date: 2005

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Training received:

  • Observation at BETT
  • Workshop at London School of Education

 

Training given:

  • Demo to Senior School staff
  • Individual training (hands-on training and assistance in putting actual lessons together)
  • 3 x English staff (12 sessions)
  • 1 x Drama (1 session)
  • 1 x Science (2 sessions)
  • 1 x sport staff (1 session)
  • Demo to Maths staff
  • Demo to Junior School staff
  • Demo for School Board of Governors
  • Demo for parents attending a school function
  • Demo for Press/Promethean
  • Demo for Dominican Convent, St John’s College and Hyde Park High School

 

Lessons prepared:

  • Maths – Demo lesson for Press and Maths staff
  • Form I (Grade 8) Angles (Right, Acute, Obtuse)
  • Estimating size
  • Measurement with protractor
  • Angles in building/nature
  • English – Poetry lesson, Dylan Thomas
  • Bibliograohy, and
  • “Do not go gentle into that good night”
  • Graphics and sound clips
  • John Keats – poetry, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, sourced off the Internet and annotated
  • Hamlet – using resource library material and annotations
  • The Tempest – using resource library material and annotating
  • Literary Essay – planning and constructing a literary essay using the strategies employed in hockey
  • (hockey field from resource library, graphics of St Mary’s girls to move around field)
  • Computer Studies – Grade 11 and 12 – All theory lessons
  • Summaries and annotations
  • Information Technology – Grade 8 and 9
  • Modern technologies and features of the IWB
  • Biology – Heart (using resource library material)
  • Labeled and students to label
  • Snakes and Ladders – Primary School – using board and counters from resource library and virtual dice
  • Hockey – Strategy and positions – using hockey field from resource library, graphics of our own girls to move around on the field
  • Other lessons simply using the IWB as a “write-on” resource with the added facility of being able to “flip” back to previous pages and to save.

 

Pupil Feedback:

  • The students have been excited by the technology
  • They are eager to volunteer to participate in the lesson and to use the IWB themselves
  • It has energized lessons – both from the student concentration span and participation
  • They enjoy having a say in the background colours and pen colours used
  • They like the fact that if they have missed something in the lesson, or have missed the lesson, they can access the material on the intranet.
  • Generally they love being taught in the auditorium, using the IWB

 

Behaviour Changes:

  • Concentration span is increased
  • Student participation and interaction have increased
  • Students are engaged with the flow of the lesson and the lesson material, as well as the teacher
  • Students are less easily distracted and have far fewer conversations amongst themselves during the lesson (communication happens within the wider context of the lesson)
  • Students are going home with “you know what we did today” stories to their parents, who are amazed after having had “How was your day?”/”Fine” conversations for the duration of their child’s senior school years.
  • The teachers using the IWB are excited about their lessons and using the board
  • IWB tools used – The teachers are developing in their use of the Activ Studio tools
  • As they master some, they are curious about what more they could do

 

Tools to learn:

  • I need to know how one attaches actions to objects on the board
  • I want to be able to animate objects

 

Plans for Term 2:

  • Increase the number of staff using the IWB
  • Offer support in use of the board and preparation of lessons to more staff
  • Install more boards in both the Junior and Senior School

 

Comments:

It has been really exciting to be involved in introducing the staff and students to the Interactive Whiteboard. It has generated such an excitement amongst students, staff, governors and parents.

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