What customers say about VNPS

A teacher might use vertical non-permanent surfaces (white boards on walls, chalk boards, windows, nifty erasable plastic sheets) to get students out of their seats and working collaboratively with each other. This can be done as a group work station or combined with a gallery walk and is often facilitated by the use of a teacher-made rubric that guides the learning.

What customers say about VNPS beauty of this instructional strategy is that it encourages student engagement, provides an opportunity for formative assessment and creates a classroom atmosphere that facilitates learning. It also allows for a level playing field as no one has the ability to dominate a group through holding the board or hogging space. This is in keeping with the ethos of building thinking classrooms where collaboration is paramount.

I have no doubt that this is a great tool for getting students out of their seats and working collaboratively, but you can accomplish the same thing by placing personal whiteboards on each table or having them all write on a shared surface. The key is not the boards themselves, but how they are used and what kind of work is being done on them.

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Kids at the boards does not a Thinking Classroom make. The fabulous learning that I see in my classrooms is a result of meticulously-taught routines, painstaking active observation and obsessively crafted thinking tasks. The next time someone tries to credit VNPS for the outstanding thinking I see, let them know that it’s not about the boards, it’s about the hard work of managing accountability and ownership of thought on the part of students.

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