Displaying+Student+Work

At Loyd, we saw that work displayed in the hallways was current - relating to that week's (or even that day's) progress toward goals.
Some suggested guidelines for displaying work:


 * Best examples can be placed in the hallways, along with a brief description and how the assignment relates to the curriculum standard and school improvement goal.
 * All students can have some work displayed in the classroom and be encouraged to strive toward achieving a high enough standard for their work to be place in the hallway.
 * In accordance with our Action Plan, exemplary work samples are tp be sent on Math Mondays or Writing Wednesdays to the Patriot Pride Work Wall.
 * Displays should demonstrate use of the intervention. For McBride, this means demonstrating how writing is being improved through the use of the GO McBride Writing Guide and how math problem solving is improving through the use of the Exemplars rubric. Displaying the Guide and Rubric with the work helps to accomplish the goals as the children learn that their efforts result in improved work.

Jerry Conrath, founder of "Our Other Youth," says that children can only move toward building self esteem and personal responsibility when they see that their own work has yielded positive results. He suggests that self esteem is built when children learn the lesson that "hard work done well feels good." We help children learn this lesson when we work with the tools with them and then provide opportunities for them to "fly solo" and succeed (although they may have to try, try again to do so!).