#classroomdisplays

On my second year placement, where I worked with prep students there was a big focus on classroom displays and visuals for just about anything you could imagine. The displays ranged from classroom rules, literacy and numeracy skills, student charts and the days timetable. On this placement, with guidance from my mentor teacher I made a poster that outlined speaking and listening skills suitable for the preps to understand and put into practice. It contained a diagram with a visual for students to easily refer to.

And the following is a poster I designed revolving around the skill of prediction

Classroom Displays-

Having a classroom displays is a great way fro students to learn about different learning topics.

1. For placement, I made many displays for the classroom to do with literacy. The displays consisted of different words to use for ‘angry,’ ‘sad’ and ‘said’ to improve their writing. These were used multiple times by many students during writing lessons and many students also came and told me they were picking up many different descriptive words in the books they were reading. The importance of classroom displays is essential and also strengthens confidence in students abilities, especially when displays of their work is shown. 

During my most professional experience round, I was in a classroom with year 6-8 students. Unfortunately, whilst I was completing my professional experience round, the teacher had recently taken down the classroom display in their room, as she was going to create a new display from the learning experiences undertaken in their Social and Emotional Learning lesson. This display, once completed, would consist of the hands of each student, with each hand containing the strengths and talents of each student. The talent could be a simple as being a good friend, and the hand of each student would be on display, thus demonstrating an inclusive approach to teaching and learning.

A display I have observed previously, in a foundation-year 2 classroom, has been a “PIE” diagram for the purposes of writing; to Persuade, Inform, and Entertain. This display had a diagram of a pie (supporting the visual learners and foundation level students), with the word accompanying the diagram, as well as a definition and examples of texts for each purpose. Although it was made reference to during the learning experiences in writing, it was also frequently referred to during reading, as students were encouraged to consider and record the purpose of the text they were reading during independent reading, and to justify their response, making references to the text.

During my practicum this round, I have come to realise this display in every classroom is very important to the teachers and students. It is called the VCOP Triangles. They are mostly used for literacy writing pieces as well as anything else the children want to write, each triangle incorporates a skill the children should be getting familiar with whilst writing their piece of writing such as an informative report. V- Vocabulary  C- Connectives O- Sentence Openers  P - Punctuation 

These 4 triangles are always mentioned whilst teaching a new writing skill or style and as of this week the teachers at my placement school have had a PD session on ways they could implement VCOP within their plans as a 5 minute warm up activity rather then just having the posters up on display. They will focus on one VCOP triangle each day of the week then recap what the children have used on day 5. 

This will further develop the children’s knowledge of learning new words, Adding correct punctuation, using different sentence openers rather than one all the time and knowing how to connect one sentence to another using the correct terms.