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Here at Edusentials, we appreciate that teachers are constantly striving to find new ways to engage and educate their children whilst making sure their classroom reflects a fun learning environment. With a view to this, our latest blog looks at breaking the supposed “fourth wall” of education, and providing educators with new and enticing ways to move away from the conventional ‘teacher at the front of the class’ model – not that there’s anything wrong with that of course! Read on to learn more about our interactive classroom supplies, and find out how they can help you to develop your individual teaching style.
A Numbers Game
Considered by many students to be one of the trickier parts of the national curriculum, maths is an area in which interactive classroom supplies can help children to develop and thrive from a young age! Selecting our popular Multiplication Carpet from our range of classroom mats, for example, opens up a litany of options to help develop teaching strategy. By laying out numbers in an orderly, cohesive fashion, classroom carpets such as this take the strain away from children’s short term memory functions, providing a boost in concentration. Physically moving away from the front of the class, however, and participating with children on their level helps to engage further, with spatial directives such as pointing and moving helping to encourage interactive learning.
The Wider World
When it comes to teaching geography, making use of interactive classroom supplies, whether it’s our Primary World Explorer rug or our Magnetic Foam puzzle, is a fantastic way to help anchor place names and locations in children’s long term memories. These fun and functional staple classroom items make use of colour coding to help to set up coherent links between facts (place names and geographical locales) and tones, helping to aid memory function over time. Moreover, inviting children to the front of the classroom to engage with stimulus publicly helps to give them a sense of both responsibility and confidence.
Up, Up and Away
Individual teaching style is a deeply personal matter, and every teacher has their own way of engaging their pupils, and making sure they achieve what they’re capable of. What we’re interested in at Edusentials is giving teachers choice and options, looking at how they can grow and develop alongside their students. Interactive classroom supplies in this respect are a means to an end, and should be thought of as a way to compliment the modern classroom dynamic. View our range of classroom supplies at our website, and as always – we’d love to hear how you put them to good use over at our Facebook page, or by email at mail@edusentials.co.uk.
Originally written 24 October 2015