Sample Bulletin Boards
Examples of bulletin boards I created during my student teaching are listed below.
Career Presentations
My students choose and researched a career for a Social Studies assignment. They were asked to present information about their desired future career and dress the part on the day of their presentation.
Parents were very excited to see pictures from these presentations, so in addition to uploading the photos to the classroom website, I decided to create a door bulletin board that showcased the student’s pictures and short summary of their career. This way other teachers and students could see the hard work that went in to each and every project!
Parents were very excited to see pictures from these presentations, so in addition to uploading the photos to the classroom website, I decided to create a door bulletin board that showcased the student’s pictures and short summary of their career. This way other teachers and students could see the hard work that went in to each and every project!
3-2-1 Bridge (Visible Thinking)
One of the Visible Thinking routines that I implemented in my classroom was the 3-2-1 Bridge. At the beginning of a unit, the students were asked to think of 3 words, 2 questions and 1 sentence having to do with the topic we would be studying. Each student received 3 sticky notes to record their answers on and they were placed on the bulletin board above the cut-out of a bridge (see example of picture to the right). At the end of the unit, the students were again asked to do the exact same procedure on 3 sticky notes. We then compared their words, questions and sentences from the beginning of the unit to showcase how much was learned from the lessons and activities!
Non-Fiction Text Features
One of the reading units I taught during student teaching focused on non-fiction text features. When students took their initial assessment partway through the unit, the results were less than ideal! I realized that they were really struggling with some of the features, even the most basic such as photo captions or headings. I decided that having a large bulletin board in the classroom that defined and gave examples of these features would be a helpful visual for the students. I also revisited the features and, as a class, we created an anchor chart that hung near the bulletin board to serve as an extra reminder.
Anti-Bullying: "The Hero in Me"
At the beginning of the year, students read the book “The Hero in Me,” by Susan Fitzsimonds. This book deals with the idea that each and every person has a “hero” inside of them that can help stand up to bullying. I thought this was a very important concept and one that the students should be reminded of all year long. I asked the students to create a “shield” on which they wrote and drew pictures of what being a hero against bullying meant to them. I also took pictures of the students in capes and superhero masks. These shields and pictures were placed on the inside door of our classroom. I think seeing these images every time they entered and exited the classroom was a great reminder of how to stand up to bullying!