Effective IWB usage
Today’s post continues the theme of professional development tools that may be useful for teachers formulating their goals for 2012. In 2008, Sweeney devised measures including Technical Indicators and Pedagogical Indicators as part of an Interactive Whiteboard Developmental Framework for teachers from the lowest stage of usage (using the IWB as a projection device) through to the highest stage (as a synergistic, spontaneous user). Shown below is Vincent & Jones’ (2008) framework for teacher use of interactive whiteboard use. Frameworks such as these could be very useful in helping teachers integrate whiteboards effectively as they review their professional development goals for the new school year.
| Stage | Characteristic |
| Substitutional | Teacher only; presentation takes precedence over student interaction. |
| Experimental | Students use the board under teacher direction: mainly dragging. Mainly whole class teaching of lesson topic |
| Interactional | Frequent student use of teacher materials needing manipulation. Student choices built in. |
| Synergistic | Both teachers and students able to construct meaning, and control direction and step lengths of lessons. Development encouraged of socially constructed products. |
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