The Interactive Whiteboards, Pedagogy and Pupil Performance ...

Many of the newer teachers do not agree with the statement, but it is most likely that
this is because many of these teachers have used IWBs during their entire teaching
careers.
Figure 22: Agreement with the statement ‘interactive whiteboards have changed how I teach’
30
25
Agree
Neutral
Disagree
20
Number of teachers
15
10
5
3 years or less 4 to 10 years 11 years or more
Teaching experience
Overall, teachers do agree that children are motivated by IWBs. New teachers are
less likely to agree with this statement (see figure 23), perhaps because they have
less basis for comparison, or because the technology itself is less significant in their
reflections on their practice.
Figure 23: Agreement with the statement ‘children are motivated by IWBs’
25
20
Agree
Neutral
Disagree
Number of teachers
15
10
5
3 years or less 4 to 10 years 11 years or more
Teaching experience
Figure 24 shows that almost all teachers agree that building up a bank of IWB
resources to share with colleagues will save time in the long run, despite the fact that
previous charts suggest few teachers currently use a centrally stored bank of
resources or have had training in how to develop one.
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