Bulletin Board Ideas for the Preschool Classroom | Discussion With Teacher and Author, Matt Halpern

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Do you ever feel pressured to put the most aesthetically-pleasing bulletin boards in your classroom?
We've all been there!
Creating eye-catching bulletin boards can become a chore that takes all the happiness from an activity that can, otherwise, be super fun.
And this is exactly what I discuss in this week's episode of Elevating Early Childhood, with my amazing guest, the brilliant Matt Halpern.
Matt has taught early elementary school for almost two decades. He is also a speaker and the author of Look at My Happy Rainbow: My Journey as a Male Kindergarten Teacher.
And today, he's here to discuss the walls in our classrooms!
Ready?
Let's dive in!
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Key Takeaways:
- Do aesthetically-pleasing bulletin boards really matter? (00:00)
- Are you spending your own money on your classroom? (02:37)
- The pressure of being a new teacher (08:07)
- The classroom is the children's space (15:57)
- Teach smarter, not harder (20:41)
- How to include the children in bulletin board decoration (23:12)
- The more you do it, the bigger it gets (26:14)
- My bulletin board philosophy (30:57)
- Over decorated classrooms can cause overstimulation in students (33:54)
- Matt's best advice (39:02)
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@christineryan9682 2 жыл бұрын

This what I have always done with my classroom from the very beginning! Child Centered,creative and FUN!

@MattHalpernEducation 2 жыл бұрын

OMG the photo of little Vanessa. EPIC.

@RiverFallsPlantation 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent info! I teach 18-24 months and my whole room is decorated with my students process art! My little ones come into the classroom saying, “paint, dot, dot” . I love your bulletin board boarder idea!

@cherylellis9033 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I have always believed this but always feel the pressure to make everything “cute” and Pinterest perfect. In my last few years I have really embraced process art and focus on the process and not the product for children’s art. It has saved me time and money and it benefits childrens’ development much more than something I prepared and they just “put together”.

@damaristrigueros6955 2 жыл бұрын

Love... And love all the things you had said today, because its true we can create amazing decoration with our kids and they feell their classroom own. We gave them with idea a lot of oppportunities to learn smarter

@nicholettevicol164 11 ай бұрын

I always put the kids work on my boards. However, I have Never let them create one. Now, I will let them have 2 of my 4 boards. Thanks for this.

@PreKPagesvideos 11 ай бұрын

Love that!

@christineryan9682 2 жыл бұрын

I also did a giant oak tree with the children.It took up the space of an entire wall. We used it as a language tree, it changed with the children's artwork during each season, and we even put Christmas lights on it in December and decorated it. Every year I would have the children in my class make an extra Apple for the tree, for the new children coming into my classroom when they go off to kindergarten. I would hang these giant apples on the tree at the beginning of the school year I would put each child's name on one apple, with a message from the child who made the Apple for them.

@Bushra123. 2 жыл бұрын

Good👍

@amalialee 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, I just found out your site today. I would like to join but the membership was already closed. Do your membership open only once a year? Thank you 😊

@PreKPagesvideos 2 жыл бұрын

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@amalialee 2 жыл бұрын

@@PreKPagesvideos I already put my name on the waiting list. I found out that your teaching tips are really helpful specially to a beginner teacher like me.

@lifelovejourney Жыл бұрын

I think it’s gotten way worse with KZfaq and teachers decorating their classrooms at the beginning of the year. It seems the decorating part is often more emphasized than is this classroom a good place to learn?