LEARNING DOMAIN 3

Bulletin Board Displays

OBJECTIVE

At the end of this activity, you should be able to appraise the effectiveness of bulletin board

displays as learning resources

STANDARDS

The following National Competency-based Teacher Standards (NCBTS) are relevant to this

domain:

1. The teacher updates bulletin board displays

2. The teacher uses principles and elements of art in the presentation of bulletin board displays

FIELD LABORATORY EXPERIENCE

Your task are to:

1. look around the school premises, along corridors, and inside classrooms for bulletin board

displays; and

2. Evaluate the displays

CHECKLIST ON THE INFORMATION AND THINGS TO BE DISPLAYED ON THE BULLETIN

BOARDS

Tick off the appropriate column that corresponds to your answer, then write your comments on

the space provided

D – Displayed ND – Not Displayed

Information D N Comments

daily newspapers

monthly celebrations Posted on bulletin board in the school

topics/ lesson for every Works of the student posted on the bulletin

subject board in classroom

birthday celebrators Posted on walls, attractive

nutritional status

List of honor students Kinder has no list of honors

class officers Kindergarten has not officers

classroom policies Posted on the wall

outputs or projects of Displayed on the bulletin board

students

Announcements Displayed on the announcement board area

report on attendance Displayed on the wall

Issuance, memorandum,

orders

sayings quotations Posted on the wall

 others: Specify

Describe one of the bulletin board displays

a. size of the bulletin board

 There are many bulletins in the school and in the classrooms. Some are big and some

are in medium size.

b. letterings/size and color of the letters

 The sizes of lettering depends on the size of bulletin board and it is colourful.

c. pictures and illustrations

 It has creative pictures and

d. background and design

 Simple and creative

e. visual impact

 Attractive that catches everybody’s attention.

f. educational advantages

 It gives information from the school; use of memos, reports &news letters

QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION

1. What is the importance of a bulletin board?

  It is important when it comes to holding and relaying important informations that would

serve as reminder to both teachers and students .

2. What is the best bulletin board you have seen in the classroom/school?

 The output learners’ board is the best bulletin board that I have seen in the classroom.

3. What are the educational advantages and disadvantages of a bulletin board?

 ADVANTAGES

-Anyone can make comments and it is visible to anyone.

-it shows the important things happening in school/classroom

-to motivate the learner

 DISADVANTAGES

-Distracting. The board must be keep in the back side of the classroom, out of obvious

sight of the student.

-Student Fairness. This can be disadvantage to those students whose work never make

it onto the board.

-Anyone could make a comment (they could be wrong)

4. How does a bulletin board facilitate and enhance learning?

 It provides a unique teaching-learning experience to the students and result in active

learning as a students are responsible for preparing and displaying the materials on the

board.
INTEGRATION

As a future teacher, how would you maximize the utilization of bulletin boards to achieve

higher learning and formation of good values among students?

 As a future teacher, I can use it in the classroom to display illustration, steps of process,

photographs, newspaper cuttings which is relevant to the lesson content and any other

creative work to achieve higher learning and formation of good values among students.