From last few weeks, I was trying to find out a good smartboard activity for my ICT- group presentation. Finally, I select few activites and combine them for the effective use of my students. I want to engage my students with their studies as they entered the classroom in the morning. I always want to work with younger students. This age group always feel proud, if they entered first in the classroom and be first on the smartboard activity. I will try to find out different morning activites for different months or some how try to connected with it. For example, Halloween activity for October, Rememberence day activities for November, and Christmas activies for December.
These kinds of morning activites also helps a teacher to show the attendence of the students. As they put their pumpkins on the ground and teacher can easily find out who is missing in the classroom. It always better to confirm first before marking them absent.
I always preffer to connect their studies with real world. I select few activites where they will find the weather outside and fix it on the smartboard. This is the smart way to achieve our learning outcomes with some hands on activites. I will model them to share their findings in their journal books. I will keep those books as a proof of their learning to show at parent-teacher meetings.
Every child wants to go on smart board activity. To be organised it is always suggested to select one student as a 'Star Of The Week', to make sure every student get a chance to perform these activites. A teacher can include different activites to engage her students like some dice activites, some patterns for maths, few digital stories for EAL and social studies etc.
Then learning will be more enjoyable and fun for them instead of burden or stress.
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