Billerica Partners for Education grant recipient Dawn Baniewicz-Press, a teacher at the Marshall Middle School in Billerica, Massachusetts shared details of her use of a Promethean Board with the Partners at our Annual Meeting in May 2012.

1. Promethean Board
Dawn Baniewicz-Press
Marshall Middle School

2. Using a Promethean Board
• Allows students to be actively
engaged in their learning.
• Students are not only listening and
observing activities, they are
physically participating in the
lessons.
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3. Uses of a Promethean Board
• Videos ~ Students are able to
watch clips or entire videos.
• Power Points ~ Teachers and
students are able to display Power
Point presentations on the
Promethean Board.
• Note taking ~ Notes can be
premade and displayed on the
Promethean Board.
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5. Uses of a Promethean Board
• Brainstorming ~ The Promethean
Board allows students and teachers
to brainstorm ideas and save the
activity. It also allows teachers to
provide every student with a copy
of the activity.
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6. Uses of a Promethean Board
• Games ~ Students are able to play
interactive educational games.
Using special hand controls,
Jeopardy games can reach new
levels. Students are able to
anonymously compete with each
other.
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8. Uses of a Promethean Board
• Webquests ~ Activities that
require students to obtain
information online, usually with
specific websites. As well as
obtaining specific information.
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10. Uses of a Promethean Board
• Interactive lessons ~ Students are
able to get up and use the
Promethean Board. This enables
students to work online and use the
board simultaneously.
• PhET, from the University of
Colorado and FOSSweb are two
interactive websites
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11. Uses of a Promethean Board
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit
/tectonics/#
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