Thinking about turning your desks into whiteboard desks? Great idea! We see students and teachers light up with excitement every time we come do an install - that's why working in education is one of our passions :) As education moves in the direction of "project-based learning" and "flipped classrooms," converting traditional school desks into whiteboard desks has become more demanded across the board. Whiteboard desks are highly recommended by every teacher we work with. Here's why:
More Engagement With In-Class Activities
Students love whiteboards and prefer to work on a whiteboard over paper any day of the week. The ability to write directly on the desk makes learning fun! Conjugating verbs, listening exercises, and writing exercises are more fun, engaging, and easy to monitor.
Higher Test Scores
With an increase in class engagement, test scores and the students’ knowledge of the subject will naturally increase. Teachers love the ability to quickly gauge how each student is performing. Also, since everything is dry erase, teachers are able to quickly correct students’ misspellings or errors with the swipe of a finger.
Save Paper!
With the ability to avoid paper for in-class activities, you could save roughly 50% of the paper currently consumed.
Increased Efficiency in the Classroom
There is no longer a need to pass out those old clunky whiteboards for in-class activities! Just grab your Expo marker and start collaborating :)
More Fun!
We don't get it. We really don't. But every time we see students interact with their whiteboard desks, we notice they proactively want to do math problems and conjugate verbs! Students love the freedom to write on the desk and are excited to learn!
Here's an unbiased quote from Ms. Venturino - a teacher who made her own from Home Depot supplies.
"With my new desks, not only is writing more pleasant but also it has brightened up my classroom. Since we did this in January 2017, I’ve used them multiple times with students. They’ve brainstormed for projects and given peer feedback (in a different color), drawn diagrams of science concepts, and reflected on their work. My favorite part of it is that students can quickly do a gallery walk to see their peers’ work and add in comments and feedback in a different color marker. When they’re all done, they take a picture and we erase the desks."
And here is a teacher's reaction after we installed our Think Board films onto her desks!
And lastly, here's a quick video of our team converting this classroom into a whiteboard/Think Board classroom! (We covered the entire school!)
Interested in learning more? Visit our page here, or shoot us an email at education@think-board.com!
Think Board is great for differentiating instructions for kids. It is a very experiential and kinesthetic learning process for the kids. It is 10 times better for muscle memory, and the kids have so much fun using it!
They see a marker and immediately think “It’s going to be fun”
I just want to express my appreciation for giving our classroom the opportunity to use your Think Boards. They have been a tremendous asset that the students really enjoy using while they learn and work on class activities. We have used them primarily for math activities, however students have also used them to write poetry, create lists and for coming up with ideas for stories.
My biggest takeaway from the couple of weeks we have used them so far is how reluctant many of my students were in writing out their math work to solve problems, and now they can’t wait to work on math and take the time to write out their work!
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Think Board is great for differentiating instructions for kids. It is a very experiential and kinesthetic learning process for the kids. It is 10 times better for muscle memory, and the kids have so much fun using it!
They see a marker and immediately think “It’s going to be fun”
I just want to express my appreciation for giving our classroom the opportunity to use your Think Boards. They have been a tremendous asset that the students really enjoy using while they learn and work on class activities. We have used them primarily for math activities, however students have also used them to write poetry, create lists and for coming up with ideas for stories.
My biggest takeaway from the couple of weeks we have used them so far is how reluctant many of my students were in writing out their math work to solve problems, and now they can’t wait to work on math and take the time to write out their work!