Curious how you can use whiteboards in the secondary math classroom? In today's show, I will share how to use non-permanent surfaces to increase engagement and reduce apathy towards learning.

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As we enter the end of the school year, are you noticing that your students are less engaged than usual? Or maybe you’ve noticed that this year has been unlike any other students are apathetic towards learning. They don’t want to do anything, and there’s an overall unwillingness to try. In today’s episode, I’m going to give you a strategy that I use in my classroom to combat this thing. So let’s get started.

These are the three different ways I use nonpermanent surfaces:

Mini Whiteboards
Dry Erase Sleeves
Vertical Whiteboards or Nonpermanent Surfaces.

I know I’ve said this and hopefully convinced you throughout this episode. But just the idea that students can wipe something away and start over fresh has really changed just the basis or the foundation of how I teach and how my students work through problems. I’ve noticed that students who may have appeared apathetic earlier on have definitely grown in confidence, or at least in willingness to try out problems.

I will be linking everything that we talked about in this episode on the show notes on my website. So if you’re like, “I need a refresher or just a recap”, definitely check it out. I will link it in the whatever platform you’re listening on. I will link the link there. So that way, you can go find it.

And as always, if you have questions, feel free to send me a message on Instagram or email me.

And with that, I’ll calc-u-later.

Johanna

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