Jamming on the Jamboard
Jamming on the Jamboard: Using Jamboard as a Tool for Recognizing Differences in Teacher Education Every semester I involved my elementary education preservice teacher in discussion on topics concerning demographics in education. Usually, I ask my students to chart their elementary teacher demographics, and we usually do this mentally. Of course, we discover that we have far more female than male teachers and white than other races as elementary school teachers. Then we read public data that confirms our lived experience with elementary school teachers. However, this year I did something different. We used a visual tool to chart our teaching demographics. I utilized Google’s Jamboard to create a visual representation of our elementary school teacher demographics. The picture at the bottom of this blog post is a display of our data. We disaggregated our elementary teachers by gender and race. From the visual representation, PST were able to quickly determine that our element