White board
White board
Originally uploaded by Sint Smeding
Read a good tip in the Times Educational Supplement message board. One school has a staffroom whiteboard that anyone is allowed to add notes to. In the morning briefing, each person elaborates upon the note they left. The key thing here I imagine is the briefing rather than the white board, and also how suggestions are addressed, if at all. It has got me thinking about how we use spaces in a school, and in particular the staff room, or common room. I know of one school where they have a Learning Wall, a physical representation of the curriculum, with rows representing years and columns displaying subjects. It seems an excellent way of showing progression (vertical) and curricular breadth and balance (horizontal). Other staffrooms have old posters and adverts, and redundant INSET flyers. The question is, are staffrooms places of sanctuary away from the curriculum and from pupils..or should they be the very nerve centre of learning and teaching?
