2. What do parents expect when
they enter a classroom?
• Clean and inviting environment
• Displays of work and information
• Neat shelves
• Caring and knowledgeable faculty
• Learning taking place
3. Have parents ever asked these
questions ?
• What is this ?
• What is the point of this project ?
• What did my son/daughter learn
from this ?
4. Tools To Make Learning
Visible
• Digital Cameras
• Computers
• Resource Library
• Children ( Most
important tool)
6. Make Learning Visible
Bulletin Boards
• Purpose : To display the work of the
children .
• Interactive
– Mathematical Concepts : 100 days of
school, patterns
– Names : spell their names and
recognition of classmates’ names
7.
8. Learning Made Visible
Bulletin Boards (2)
– Geography : chart vacations, learn
states and continents, introduce
landforms
– Vocabulary builders : introduce new
words and concepts
9. Bulletin Boards
• Bulletin Boards
– Lesson, Lesson
displays lesson
plans
– Job Description
invites one to
learn how their
child thinks.
10. Make Learning Visible
Journals
• Purpose : Communication tool between the
parent, child and teacher.
• Writing Tool
– Encourages children to write and draw how
they feel.
– Teachers and parents can correspond about
academic progress and behavior.
– Improve handwriting, organize thoughts and
introduces sentence structure.
11. Make Learning Visible
Documentation Panels
• Purpose: Documentation panels allow
parents and guests to see milestones of
the class, not just individuals.
– Documentation panels are usually
created on a poster board or displayed
on a door
– Usually cover special events, projects or
everyday activities
12. Make Learning Visible
Classroom Displays
• Purpose : To introduce parents and guests
to the children’s world.
– Art and Special Projects : Always
include an explanation of how the
project is done and the learning
benefits
– Center Signs : Explain or give some of
the benefits of each center
– Job Boards, Choice Boards, Picture
Schedule
13. Learning Made Visible
Classroom Displays
– Parent Board : Lesson plans, menus,
newsletter, parent information and
teachers’ schedules should be posted
– Circle Time Area: most learning takes
place in this area
14. Classroom Displays
• Circle Time Area
– Letter, Shape,
Color, and Number
of the week
displayed
– Calendar and
Weather
15. Make Learning Visible
Portfolios
• Purpose : To collect samples and
photographs of a student’s progress when
they enter until they are promoted to the
next grade.
– Portfolios should be divided into
categories such as : Logic and Science,
Assessment and Social Relations
– Portfolios are not scrapbooks. The cute
pages should be saved for
documentation panels
16. Learning Made Visible
Classroom Homepage
• Classroom homepages allow parents to
learn what is happening via computer.
• Teachers can build the homepage at
www.scholastic.com.
• Special links : Announcements, Book Lists
and Homework.
