Through seeing and making associations between images and meaning, we acquire languages. An interactive whiteboard is a perfect tool to display images and have students make associations between what they see and what they here. In this next video, we see Marie Daniels incorporating a whiteboard as well as other technologies into her teaching practices to provide her students with an engaging experience.
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Because teaching English as a second language is very similar to teaching a foreign language to English-speaking students, I decided to incorporate videos that highlighted ESL teachers using whiteboards. For a foreign language teacher, the similarities will be obvious and ideas should start to flow. This next video showcases a teacher using a whiteboard to demonstrate prepositions. She then has students drag objects around the screen based on the prepositions they are learning.
In this final video, the same teacher utilizes the Whiteboard to teach the past tense of various verbs. She has a student come up to the board to complete an action and asks the rest of the class what that student did. The correct response must come in the past tense.