white boards and how they help teachers around the world

http://education.smarttech.com/NR/rdonlyres/C399AB73-E2CB-4236-AD50-727DA0D86319/0/reducing_stress_wp.pdf

This article informed me about what teachers think about white boards. Throughout the article there are statistics about how much the white boards help the teachers in the classroom. The article received its data on research from North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia teachers. The researchers wanted to know the teachers working conditions to demonstrate the positive impact they have with using this interactive whiteboard. The main theme about the article is how much stress teachers have and how this new technology helps them relive some of it. Secondary teachers have said that it saves them two hours a week and primary teachers state that it saves them more than two hours per week. “Saving and revising digital lessons and sharing them with other teachers are, in many cases, reducing planning and preparation time for teachers, particularly those in primary schools” (Kitchen, Finch and Sinclair, 2007). However, if teachers are not given sufficient training this new technology can cause additional stress for these busy teachers. But on the other hand these white boards have been shown to have a positive influence with planning and delivering lessons of material. Teachers can use the white boards for every subject. From graphs in math and sentence structure in English the white board helps in every way. Overall, the white board gives the teacher new ways to prepare lessons in a more efficient way.