Using Pinterest

Pinterest can be a very resourceful tool for ideas inside the classroom. I have used Pinterest for my own personal life to organize my house and decorate the birthday parties I create for my daughter. And now that I am inside the classroom, it has been so much helpful because I can find great ideas on how to decorate the classroom for the first day of school to planning activities for the students to do as an incentive for their behavior.

PLANNING

Pinterest can be very beneficial inside the classroom. One of the ways that this tool can be used to make a benefit inside the class is to plan your lessons. Lesson Planning can be a difficult task at the beginning, taken that I am a first year teacher, and with everything thrown at your way through trainings and faculty meetings can be an overload. But ever since the beginning of the school year, I have been using Pinterest to do my lesson plans and get ideas on how I can engage the students and activities that will help them understand the concepts I need to teach. This resource is awesome and I love it because it gives you examples of anchor charts that can be done with the class as a reminder of the lesson being taught, activities that will provide differentiated learning, such as student led, teacher led, group discussions, or whole group discussions, and is very to find on Pinterest because all you have to do is be specific on the kind of instruction you want your classroom to be like and the content that is being taught, and it gives you many resources, examples and activities that are related to your search.

ORGANIZATION

Not only does Pinterest presents ideas on how to make a creative lesson that engages all students, but it also gives ideas on how and where to arrange the classroom supplies, desks, or anything for that matter. I find this an awesome resource for that because it not only gives you an idea of the variety of ways that the classroom can be arranged, but it also gives the meaning to the way things are positioned and what message it sends out to the students.

CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT/REWARDS

There is a wide range of variety on the types of training there is on classroom management strategies they offer the teachers, but Pinterest helps give some ideas on how to implement that specific technique in the classroom. Other times, Pinterest not only reinforces the different kinds of classroom management techniques, but it also provides with some ideas that different teachers have some up with as well.

Here is the link to one of my Pinterest boards:

http://pin.it/2DDiVOQ