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The interactive whiteboard offers quite a few benefits to our teaching. There is the opportunity to engage students with an interesting presentation of the topic. The smartboard allows the teacher to concentrate on delivery of the lesson, minimising time with their back to the class. This helps with the flow of the lesson and supports good classroom management. A busy and engaged class is less likely to to be involved in disruptive behaviour.
The smartboard also gives the teacher access to the huge amount of resources available on the internet. Pedagogically this means a larger variety of strategies may be employed to teach a particular concept, catering to the needs of students with particular learning preferences. For example an animation of the behaviour of a function may benefit a visual learner who may struggle with algebraic or static two dimensional explanations.
An important advantage of the interactive whiteboard is that it encourages students to be active participants in the lesson. This not only increases engagement but supports the students own construction of their knowledge. By allowing students to experiment with the whiteboard, we can give them a sense of ownership of their learning and see the teacher not as a body of knowledge but someone who is there to guide their own discovery of mathematics.
Its important to remember this is only a tool and can only be of use if it is used in conjunction with a well prepared and relevant lesson.

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