<p>How prevalent are they at your school? Do teachers use them a lot or what? Do you even know what they are? At my school, some departments have them and others (strangely enough, the ones that need them, do not). </p>
<p>What is the situation/general opinion concerning Promethean/SMART boards at your school and what do you think of them?</p>
<p>We have the boards in every classroom. They are really helpful, interactive, and they definitely add to the class. </p>
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<p>They’re in about 40% of classrooms at my school. I’m sure that they would be useful if the teachers were proficient in using them. However, that’s not the case at all. The teachers spend probably 5 minutes out of the 43 they have troubleshooting something. Most of the time it takes longer to use the smart board than to just use a white board or a chalk board.</p>
<p>In short: They would be useful if the teachers had a training session with them and knew how to use them. In my case, they’re really just a distraction.</p>
<p>At my old school, every classroom had one. I didn’t really like them…the markers wouldn’t work well, and a lot of the teachers didn’t know how to use them.</p>
<p>When I was in middle school in a different system (urban, public) we had them in all science and math classrooms.</p>
<p>In my current school (suburban, public) we have them in every classroom.</p>
<p>They’re in about 80% of the rooms at my school</p>
<p>Don’t really care for them, but don’t hate them either.</p>
<p>They’re in maybe 50 to 60 percent of rooms in my school.</p>
<p>They’re OK. Not extremely useful many times, but that’s mostly because the teachers don’t make use of them as much as they should. They might be useful if teachers adapted their planned lessons slightly to include all the features of the board (and some teachers do that, especially with the polling feature), but most don’t have the time to.</p>
<p>We have them in every classroom in my school. In some classes, they’re more useful than others. Like in Math, History, and Physics they’re extremely useful. In English and Latin, they’re useless. I think we should only have Smartboards in the classrooms where we use them a lot.</p>
<p>Every classroom has one at my school. Even though we will use it every day in some classes (Spanish) or once a…month in AP chemistry.</p>
<p>100% of classrooms in my school. Sometimes they take away from the class, especially if they aren’t calibrated. But for the most part they make the class much more seamless as the teacher doesn’t have to constantly erase, but can just flip to a new page. They aren’t really a necessity, but more of a functional novelty in my opinion.</p>
<p>About 25-35% of the classes in my school have boards, but most of the teachers only use them to play powerpoints or don’t really know how to use them very well. They have become sort of useless in my school, but they would be helpful if people knew how to use them.</p>
<p>Every single room has one. It certainly helps in certain aspects such as powerpoints and videos and such. In math, the Notebook app certainly helps the teacher.</p>
<p>I think 50% of classrooms in my school has them, but that’s just an estimate.
It’s been increasing in prevalence every year. In middle school, a single art teacher had one and it was older, but since it was new everyone liked playing with it.
Now I have 3/6 of my classes (excluding band and gym) have them, and one other teacher has a projector that hooks into the computer, but no smart board.
All the teachers that have it, use it (fully), leading me to believe that teachers who asked for it got it first. It’s never gotten in the way of a lesson, since they usually work well and rarely need calibration.</p>
<p>Every class has a smart/promethean board…even the wellness classroom has one…i think theyre super helpful. Espically in math. When the teacher just pulls up the calculator on the board, its a lot easier for him to show us.</p>
<p>All math and history classes have it.</p>
<p>We used to have Smart Boards, but my school replaced them with ActivBoards a few years ago. Every teacher has one. There’s even one in the girl’s locker room and the cafeteria, which is really dumb.</p>
<p>At my school, the classes are very lectured-based… kind of like college. The teachers prepare a slideshow on the ActivBoard that goes over the main points of the lesson, and we just take notes off of it. In math and chem, however, we do actual classwork using the ActivBoard. They’ve become sort of a necessity at my school.</p>
<p>Edit: Our teachers are required to go through a 3-day training session to learn how to use the boards.</p>
<p>I think a lot of our teachers aren’t using them as much anymore. They were big here like 3 to 4 years ago. Now, almost everyone of my teachers use an ELMO instead.</p>
<p>-------------------------------------------If it is to be, it is up to me…</p>
<p>Yea, see, the language department got them first at my school and use them the most. The other departments have them now. Some teachers have these big, HD screens attached to a touchpad on their personal computers. </p>
<p>Here’s something weird: All grades at my school will be switching from books to personal iPad for every student.</p>
<p>History and science has it, math has tablets so it’s easier to do stuff.</p>
<p>I do like them, however.</p>
<p>They are in EVERY classroom- in the entire district.</p>
<p>In my high school (1440 kids) every room, be it math, science, fitness or band, has one! Excluding math, music, and art, all the other teachers use them almost daily. It isn’t imperative though, drawing on it isnt going to increase learning tenfold or anything.</p>