- Design for the 21st Century - make your displays relevant to students’ experiences and use modern graphics
- Keep it simple - don’t fill your display with too many facts, faced with a board full of text students are less likely to look at all
- Ask questions - get your students to think more about the display by adding 3 or 4 questions
- Use quality resources - if you are searching images on Google to use in your display, always select ‘Large’ in the Search tools option; poor quality graphics will undermine your work.
- Keep it big - use a large font size so that your information can be read at a distance and by people on the move
- Keep changing - once students are familiar with a display it becomes ‘invisible’ so make sure you keep your room looking fresh by updating on a regular basis
- Think outside the box - use portable boards to use open spaces for your display, or ask your local library if you can display a project there
- Enhance - place a table infront of your display with relevant books and items of interest or samples of previous work
- Key Words - reinforce learning by adding key words to your display, use a variety of colours and font styles for these words, it will help visual learners to remember them
- Review - ask your students if they liked the display, whether it motivated them and if they learned from it; use their feedback to improve in the future!
For more information or to download our guide to educational displays check out our website: http://www.graphix-direct.co.uk
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