For the first time since becoming a Loudoun teacher I feel like I am using the Promethean board as it was always intended. Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on your opinion, I am in a classroom with a wall that opens. This year there someone from my team that also teaches math is on the other side of the wall. Last month we decided to open the wall permanently.
In the beginning we were using it like a game to keep the kids attention, one teacher talked from either room and we both wrote on our boards. We would trade throughout the lesson to keep the kids focused. Finally my coworker decided to project from one computer onto both screens. Now our boards are connected so when something is written on one it shows up on the other. Instead of standing at the board we use a wireless slate to write on the boards.
The purpose of this is to have 3 teachers in the classroom as opposed to a team taught class on one side and a gen ed class on the other. We have a permanent help station in the middle where the wall used to be, so at any time during the lesson if a student is lost or falls behind they move to the middle and get one on one or small group help. We are continuing to build on this idea and transition the kids into feeling like this is a "normal" classroom experience.
Blogs and wikis are still on my mind and how I can use them for math. I may have an idea soon where students have homework groups on a blog. We would create 7 groups to keep the amount of students smaller and match them up with people that are not in their classroom to spark new conversations...the wheels are turning. Thoughts would be helpful!
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