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Classroom display
The document provides tips and guidelines for creating effective classroom displays. It discusses the purposes of displays, including to enrich lessons, provide extra information for students, and showcase student work. It also offers advice on display surfaces, layout, organization, and design elements like color schemes, captions, and maintaining displays. The overall message is that classroom displays should be well-planned, organized, engaging, and celebrate student effort and learning.
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- 2. 09/14/16 Reasons for MakingDisplays
- 3. • merely decorative •develop the skills of teachers in display techniques and use them effectively for educational, management and other purposes • enrich or reinforce what is being taught • can include information for students • set the scene for a new teaching topic • part of some ongoing work • provide students with something extra to do • part of record keeping • communicate to others what the class is doing • stimulate and create interest
- 4. 09/14/16 The Display ofStudents' Work
- 5. • deserves specialconsideration and needs to be approached sensitively • celebrates effort, as well a perfect work • helps students appreciate their own work and the work of others • students' names be visible • students' involvement - with the teacher's supervision
- 6. The Display ofStudents'Work The reality is… “We set standards by the environment we offer to children” (Dean, 2001, p.197)
- 7. 09/14/16 Display Surfaces walls ceiling windows publications public placesanotherschool principal's office staff room corridors string table cupboard tops shelves
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- 9. • Relevance ofdisplay • Coherence of display (create a theme/motif) • Organization of display 09/14/16 Full walls do not mean they are well decorated. It is something else
- 10. • Change displaysregularly, to maintain interest and freshness • Displays need maintenance. Keep up running repairs if things come loose or damaged or untidy. • Think about the eye level of students, including when they are seated. This should influence the height of displays. • Give displays titles/captions
- 11. • When youvisit other schools and classrooms, look out for good display ideas. • Search the Internet for classroom display ideas and help. • When preparing titles and labels for displays, measure carefully the space where these titles are to be placed.
- 12. • Learn fromthe past and from others. 09/14/16
- 13. What about harmonizingcolors in displays? 09/14/16
- 14. • Use contrasting colorsfor display.
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- 16. dark over light light over dark
- 17. • decide ona scheme for the alignment and arrangement of display material. if display items are of different sizes, they can be aligned along a top edge Example Layout
- 18. or a verticalor horizontal line of symmetry
- 20. 09/14/16 alignment tip: Use yarnand do not rely on your visual sight in aligning the display
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- 22. • Double mountingdisplay material can add greatly to its visual impact Border effects Background Outer mount Double mounting Inner mount Picture
- 23. • stick narrowstrips of contrasting colored paper
- 24. • borders forthe display area itself can also be created using repeat motifs
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- 29. • Text (i.e.quotes, labels or titles) should be legible even to the last person seated at the back row
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- 31. Some tips: 1. Createan overall theme 2. DIY (Draw It Yourself). Can't draw? Seek the help of Mr. Publisher
- 32. “This is theway we do things around here”. The Power of Display:
- 33. “Those schools thathave books falling off the shelves, with books laid on top of other books, some with ripped covers, others with pages falling out, give the visitor a clear impression of the school, and the culture” Quote
- 34. “Classrooms have personalitiesjust like people.” -63 Ways of Improving Classroom Instruction (Gary Phillips and Maurice Gibbons)
- 35. - end - References: AClassroom and School Display. A Guide for Teachers and for Teacher Training by Dr. David Smawfield. 2006 Morrow, L. M. (1990). Preparing the classroom environment to promote literacy during play. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 5, 537-554.
- 36. What did youdo? • Did you make a lay-out plan? Agree on the background agree on the colors to apply on the characters Agree on the colors of the text • What color combination/s is /are applied? • Is the quote legible even to the last person in the line? • Is the placement of the letters straight? How did you get a straight line? (or the opposite) • Did you provide a breathing space on the display board? 09/14/16
Editor's Notes
- #4 merely decorative develop the skills of teachers in display techniques and use them effectively for educational, management and other purposes enrich or reinforce what is being taught can include information for students set the scene for a new teaching topic part of some ongoing work provide students with something extra to do part of record keeping communicate to others what the class is doing stimulate and create interest
- #6 deserves special consideration and needs to be approached sensitively celebrates effort, as well a perfect work helps students appreciate their own work and the work of others students' names be visible students' involvement - with the teacher's supervision
- #7 The reality is… “We set standards by the environment we offer to children” (Dean, 2001, p.197)
- #11 Change displays regularly, to maintain interest and freshness Displays need maintenance. Keep up running repairs if things come loose or damaged or untidy. Think about the eye level of students, including when they are seated. This should influence the height of displays. Give displays titles.
- #12 When you visit other schools and classrooms, look out for good display ideas. Search the Internet for classroom display ideas and help. When preparing titles and labels for displays, measure carefully the space where these titles are to be placed.