Week 11: Class Slides

 This week, Ashley discussed the importance of using slides in your classroom. Whether you're virtual, or in person, slides can drastically change any lesson. According to Ashley, she says there are three key benefits of using classroom slides.

1. Slides can help teachers manage their day
2. Class slide can help boost classroom management
3. Class slides can foster student independence

I completely agree with her, but would also add that students always feel like they have something to do, when it's listen on the board. They know the expectation, and it can provide a sense of comfort when they know they can rely on class slides to keep them on task during class. My class slides contain the activities for the day, along with our instructional framework. This also prevents students from asking the age old question of "what are we doing today?' They immediately know to look at the board, and check out our daily agenda. As Ashley mentioned, this definitely helps with classroom management. In person, I would outline the tasks, by order of completion. My number one was always independent reading. So students would check the board, grab their IR book, and quickly have a seat while the timer counted down for them.

Unfortunately, their can be quite a few negative to using slides as well. If a teacher makes their slides too cluttered or too bland, students will be less engaged and this could cause classroom management challenges.