Make My Classroom Rock!!!

I love making my work space colorful, fun, and functional.  When you visit my office, you can find my desk to be the most decorated of the ten located in Ferguson 012.  I want the environment I work in to be conducive and welcoming.  Well, high school students are no different.  Students LOVE entering classrooms that are more exciting than puke green walls.  Utilizing the physical and cognitive space in your classroom can lead to multiple learning opportunities and increased student engagement.  Bulletin boards are one of the greatest ways to utilize wall space (physical space) to increase student engagement (cognitive space).  And, well, bulletin boards are fun!

The following video provides some tricks of the trade when conceptualizing and implementing bulletin boards into your classroom.

Be creative, have fun, and remember, bulletin boards can serve a decorative purpose while being functional purpose too!

Check out NAAE CoP for creative bulletin boards captured through photographs from previous Penn State AEE Alum.  Check out the photo below, 2013 graduate Mackenzie McCollum designed both of these boards!

This bulletin board was developed by Mackenzie for AEE 412 and utilized during her student teaching at Central Columbia!

The above photos were taken by Mackenzie just days before the start of the new 2013 school year in her classroom at Danville Middle School!