Posters for Teachers March 13, 2007
Posted by Linda in : displays advice , 1 comment so farThis is the first in a series of displays aimed at staff rather than pupils. Let’s not forget that the school is a workplace for adults and, hopefully, a learning organisation for all. Displays that use humour can be a useful reminder and motivator for staff. Just change them often before the joke palls.
Adrian Bruce is an Australian teacher who is a great source of posters and classroom ideas. He also has a super blog (A Teacher’s Toolbox) full of good ideas. This one should be printed up A3, I think 
* In years to come will you be stopped in the street by an ex-student and they will bow down before you and thank you for all the exciting worksheets they gave? I don’t think so!
* Please challenge your students and teach them to think.
* Please give your students a 21st Century Literacy skillset.
* Please hang this poster next to your school’s photocopier.
Why do we make displays? December 6, 2006
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This one shows off children’s work quite beautifully. It is decorative and it does cheer up a drab corridor. I’m not sure what anyone is learning from it directly but I’m pretty sure the children who contributed to it feel a sense of pride and ownership that their work has gone into one of the communal areas of the school.
It’s partnered by this display as well and they are so vibrant that they really do cheer the place up on a grim, wet, northern day!
Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch October 3, 2006
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Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch, originally uploaded by LindaH.
Another story check list display from our Year 2 classroom. There are other displays in the room that showcase children’s own work. I still have mixed feelings about something that’s so obviously the work of an adult. How effective are such informative displays?
Up-date:
Popping back into this classroom a few days later I found a much more interactive display. A bo’sun’s line (like the one in the story) had been added. It looked great! There’s Hamish, looking suitably glum, being mobbed by a gang of hungry seagulls
A basket of food has also been added and this was where the interactivity came in. The children had been asked to sort food that might be in the Lighthouse Keeper’s lunch into food groups and talk about making healthy choices. Thus meeting one of their science targets at the same time.Then children then chose a variety of food to go into the basket:
People somtimes search for this post and forget the apostrophe, so just for them you could call it The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch.
Handa’s Surprise July 31, 2006
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Handa’s Surprise, originally uploaded by LindaH.
This classroom display was used in Year 2. It acts as a reminder of the essential elements of a story.
It was adapted from an idea found in Hands on Literacy. The original used The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch. I think it works very well, making a lively and interesting display. I know the teacher well and she’s always careful to actually refer children to displays like this when they are writing stories. In this way it becomes a useable resource rather than just decorative.
Someone else liked it too, this classroom display has been blogged by Bloganna-anna in Spain too.
Hands on Literacy
