Today I'm linking up for Chapter 18 of the Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites book study.
Visuals are a large part of any successful classroom. Kids need visuals to learn. Not only should we use these visuals when teaching a lesson, displaying visuals in the classroom gives kids access to that learning long after the lesson is over.
Visuals are a large part of my classroom and this chapter gave me even more ideas for my classroom.
How I Use This Strategy
Visuals are a large part of my classroom and this chapter gave me even more ideas for my classroom.
How I Use This Strategy
While I don't do a ton of lecturing, we do read nonfiction text and discuss them. While reading these texts we use graphic organizers displayed on the Promethean board to help us record our learning and make connections to other topics already introduced.
Our classroom word wall is a large part of our classroom and gives my kiddos access to the words we've been working with all year. I am lucky enough to have a large wall that is magnetic so my kiddos have full access to these words. Many times during our day I'll see a kid taking the words off the wall to work with before replacing them.
During our daily problem solving times we display our word problems on the Promethean board for all to see. Then I have a kiddo come up to show how they solved the problem as well as explain how they solved the word problem. So lucky to have these great tools in my room.
During our math and ela small group times we also use various posters to help us recall information previously learned. I love it when I see my kiddos using these posters to help them when working independently.
I also use the Promethean board to display key terms as well as what each term means. We've been working with adjectives and these slides on the board have helped my kiddos explain what adjectives are as well as come up with their own examples of adjectives.
What I Want To Try
Our classroom word wall is a large part of our classroom and gives my kiddos access to the words we've been working with all year. I am lucky enough to have a large wall that is magnetic so my kiddos have full access to these words. Many times during our day I'll see a kid taking the words off the wall to work with before replacing them.
During our daily problem solving times we display our word problems on the Promethean board for all to see. Then I have a kiddo come up to show how they solved the problem as well as explain how they solved the word problem. So lucky to have these great tools in my room.
During our math and ela small group times we also use various posters to help us recall information previously learned. I love it when I see my kiddos using these posters to help them when working independently.
I also use the Promethean board to display key terms as well as what each term means. We've been working with adjectives and these slides on the board have helped my kiddos explain what adjectives are as well as come up with their own examples of adjectives.
What I Want To Try
I love that Marcia Tate referenced the idea of using different parts of the room when teaching to keep the attention of your kiddos as well as be close to the kiddos that may need you near them to really focus. Never really gave much thought to it but changing up where instruction is delivered could be helpful to some learners.
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How are you using this strategy in your classroom?
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