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True Janet, but now studying methodologies have evolved a great deal and probably there are no more blackboards.
The last classroom I taught in which had a black (or green) board was in 2009. Since then we’ve had white boards which have been replaced by screens about 8 years ago.
I do miss the blackboards though they were very limited in terms of teaching. I don’t miss being covered in chalk dust by the end of the day though!
I can’t remember ever teaching using a chalkboard, but at school the nuns used to make us go outside and bang the board cleaners together to get rid of the chalk dust!
I give classes in a school with kids and the classes we are in, have a blackboard (very old school!) and whenever they make a grammatical mistake, I do this (or fake doing this) and they no longer make the mistake!… In the classrooms where there is no blackboard, I fake doing this and it’s just as effective!…