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====Welcome to our workshop, Creating interactive lessons to promote engagement and critical thinking with the Promethean Interactive Whiteboard. This wiki space will help guide your instruction as we navigate through the weeks workshops. ====

====The Promethean Interactive Whiteboard is a fantastic tool for promoting engagement and critical thinking within the classroom. Throughout this workshop, you will learn the tools that will help you to engage your students through the technology and expand their thinking and learning skills. We will continue to build on your experiences from workshop 1: Learning the Promethean Interactive Whiteboard and ActivInspire Software, expanding your knowledge of the basic functions of the board to include how it can be used within your classroom to enhance learning and instruction. ====

====This course will run for 5 consecutive days. During that time you will learn about how to reach your students' various learning styles and needs, including how to maximize the Promethean board to support audio, visual, and kinesthetic learners. You will also learn about ways that the board can be used for assessment and evaluation purposes through the Activotes and Activexpressions. We will also use various resources to develop a criteria for engagement and understand how the board can work to promote critical thinking within a lesson. ====

====We will come back to this site frequently to post our flipchart drafts for evaluation. This site will also give you access to specific tutorials and directions that we will use throughout the week. Please make sure to save this link to your favorites for easy access. ====

**About Your Instructor: **
==== My name is H.G and I am a kindergarten teacher. During my second year teaching, I began working with interactive whiteboards in my classroom. I have worked with both SMART boards and Promethean Boards over the last seven years. While working in MCPS, I have focused on using Promethean Boards and integrating them into my daily lessons. I have worked as a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) teacher for the past four years, teaching over 15 Promethean courses on how to utilize the software to maximize student potential in the classroom. I am also a certified coach with The Critical Thinking Consortium, a Canada based program that helps teachers learn how to implement critical thinking skills into their lessons. I love using this technology to help improve instruction and show teachers the amazing potential that it can have on your instruction! ====