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  • Sydnor Jennings Elementary School
  • Nathalie, VA
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Now that I'm teaching my students in Zoom meetings rather than in the classroom, I am looking for tools to help keep them engaged. One tool that would really help is a small individual whiteboard for each child. Give a fifth grader a whiteboard and they instantly become more excited about learning! Why whiteboards? Fifth graders have a hard time typing in the chat box during a Zoom meeting. Some internet connections make the back and forth discussions hard to understand. It takes up valuable learning time for them. If they could quickly jot down questions, answers, thoughts, or guesses on their own whiteboards and hold them up to the web cam for me to see, it could really improve their engagement. I can already think of several activities and games I could use with my kiddos if they each had a whiteboard, marker, and eraser: class surveys, checks for understanding, Guess the Vocab Word, and Yes/No/Maybe are a few that come to mind.

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Now that I'm teaching my students in Zoom meetings rather than in the classroom, I am looking for tools to help keep them engaged. One tool that would really help is a small individual whiteboard for each child. Give a fifth grader a whiteboard and they instantly become more excited about learning! Why whiteboards? Fifth graders have a hard time typing in the chat box during a Zoom meeting. Some internet connections make the back and forth discussions hard to understand. It takes up valuable learning time for them. If they could quickly jot down questions, answers, thoughts, or guesses on their own whiteboards and hold them up to the web cam for me to see, it could really improve their engagement. I can already think of several activities and games I could use with my kiddos if they each had a whiteboard, marker, and eraser: class surveys, checks for understanding, Guess the Vocab Word, and Yes/No/Maybe are a few that come to mind.

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