Finally starting to get the BIG picture.. talking about SMART Board!!

I was able to see my host teacher's aid use a SMART Board in her classroom to get the students engaged in a math lesson. The teacher displayed an interesting way to portray the concept of place value. The concept was given that the ones house goes over to their neighbors, the tens house, if they need to borrow something. The tens would do the same to their neighbor, the hundreds. It was a neat way to present the idea to the students. The teacher found a way to use a different format in order to engage the students in a way that they had not had the chance to do yet. The teacher needs to always be thinking about different ways to present the information to the class that is going to catch their attention. the students loved getting up and using the pen and eraser feature on the SMART Board. There was one student that usually has trouble with the concept of borrowing and trading when it comes to subtraction, but he showed such an improvement while working with this new type of technology. This experience gave me the insight that let me know that differentiation in the lesson formats along with implementing technology, can bring many benefits to the students and teacher.