Learning displays

Have you seen that display?

Use your displays to brighten up your classroom and make it a more interesting and stimulating environment. 

Back in 2006 Dr David Smawfield published 'Classroom and School Display' a guide for teachers. 

Below I've summarised the key points and included some examples of how I've attempted to meet his criteria. 

A display is for learning not just decoration.

When designing your display consider it's focus. 

• Does it include useful direct teaching aids?
• Will it enrich or reinforce what is being taught?
• Does it include information that is important for students to memorise?
• Is it part of some on-going work?
• Will it stimulate and create pupil interest?

Show the students you value their work. 

Where ever possible I use students' work and examples of students working in my displays. It is a powerful way of showing them that their work is valued. It creates for them, a sense of achievement. They show their friends and family and as a result classroom motivation usually demonstrates an improvement. 

Some Examples

Being A specialist sports college this display uses student's work to show the links between Maths an Sport.

 This display is based on literacy, and acts as a direct teaching aid and includes information that is important fr students to memorise. 

This display stimulates student interest by show casing students using new technologies as part of an on-going programme to enhance their learning. Thanks LRA for support on this one.

This one includes several of the considerations, I'll let you decide which.