Have you used a white board (or black board!) or some sort of digital board (online or interactive) recently - and what have you used it for?
It can be a very useful tool indeed - and can be planned quite carefully.
For example:
- ESL Activities: Disappearing drill
- get students to draw, show/mime, or explain vocabulary using the board
- timelines
- create your own blockbusters for the board: Blockbusters Grid Game Templates | Teaching Resources
- auditory pelmanism on the board: Pelmanism: a fun way to teach vocabulary - Alex Walls ELT
- using the board to display visuals and students' own work
- reverse translation/reverse quizzes
- 'GLALL' (a Game-Like Activity for Language Learning) Lesson Share: Playschool for grown-ups? Changing the rules of the game in language teaching | Article | Onestopenglish
And more ideas to plan for:
- brainstorming using a mindmap/spidergram
- prediction and input before another activity
- feedback after an activity
When it comes to more spontaneous use of the board, we need to think about:
- colour-coding for different aspects of language
- word class
- grammatical features
- collocation
- where to write on the board
- how long to leave it
- what the students should be recording themselves
- features of pronunciation
- phonemic script
- word stress and sentence stress
- connected speech
- intonation patterns
- more than just words: context, dialogue, sentences
And all of this can be used for recycling and practice at the end of the lesson:
- definitions, explanations, translations
- more sentences/collocations/examples
- topic around the word
- synonyms/antonyms
- drilling/pronunciation
The board can also be used for language improvement - or delayed error correction:
- a handout featuring examples of typical spoken errors to examine via the board
Some basics:
- how clear and large is your writing or typing?
- how about dividing the board into sections?!
- don't worry if your spelling is wrong! get the students to look it up!
- ask your students for feedback about using the board
And we can all reflect afterwards about how we've used the board.
Finally, some links/further reading:
- TeachingRecipes.com
- Memory Activities for Language Learning | Memory Activities for Language Learning | Cambridge University Press
- Using the board | TeachingEnglish | British Council
- 15 Things to Do with a Whiteboard | TEFL Net
- Out of thin air – bringing the whiteboard back into clear focus
- Whiteboarding: the Input Session CELTA Forgot | ELT Blog
- Delayed correction | TeachingEnglish | British Council
With thanks to JW for putting on an excellent seminar.
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