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Interactive whole class teaching and interactive white boards (2005)
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Tanner05interactivewhole,
author = {Howard Tanner and Sonia Jones and Steve Kennewell and Gary Beauchamp},
title = {Interactive whole class teaching and interactive white boards},
booktitle = {In},
year = {2005},
pages = {720--727}
}
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Abstract
In England and Wales, National Strategies promote pedagogies that emphasise interactive whole class teaching, although this is not defined precisely. In recent years major investment has been made in Interactive White Boards (IWB) and, whilst they do not determine pedagogy, as cultural tools they tend to support and encourage whole class teaching. This paper discusses the nature of interactive teaching and suggests that deep rather than surface features of interaction must be addressed if learning is to be improved. The zeitgeist in Britain and much of the Western world towards the turn of the twentieth century focused on standards of numeracy and literacy in our schools. Concerns over standards and the perceived underperformance of England in comparison with other countries, particularly in basic skills at the primary level, led to the creation of the National Numeracy Project (Straker 1997). Such was the political enthusiasm for the interim results that it formed the basis of the National Numeracy Strategy (NNS) (DfEE 1999). A pilot to extend the work of the NNS into secondary schools began the following year and, without waiting for the results, the DfEE demanded that all schools use the new Strategy for teaching mathematics with eleven to fourteen year old pupils from 2001 (DfEE, 2001).
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interactive whole class teaching interactive white board interim result perceived underperformance secondary school recent year major investment national numeracy strategy national strategy interactive teaching basic skill surface feature national numeracy project twentieth century cultural tool following year western world political enthusiasm whole class teaching fourteen year old pupil new strategy primary level
