Smart Boards in Class. A Study in Al Gheran Area Public Schools

Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Didactics - Common Didactics, Educational Objectives, Methods, grade: Lecturer, Misurata University (Languages and Translation Faculty), course: Teaching, language: English, abstract: The study aims to explore the reality of the use of the smart board (SB) for teaching in Al Gheran area public schools, in Misrata. At the same time the goal is to show the most important features of the SB, and recognize the most prominent obstacles faced by teachers in schools with SB. The study adopts a quantitative research approach characterized by a questionnaire including 14 items. Forty teachers of primary and preparatory school responded to these questionnaire items. The data were analyzed by SPSS version 20, and then provides a set of recommendations and proposals to activate the use of the SB for teaching in Libyan public schools.

The SB is an effective way of teaching, and it attracts the students by writing electronically in all colors and sizes using writing tools on the SB program instead of writing with crayons and markers. Saving time and effort for the teacher, the SB saves a lot of effort and provides teachers with what they need as a science teacher for the figures and pictures, and the teacher of geography needs for maps as the English teacher needs a number of cards and pictures to display words.