It was a turmoil year at my school. I started teaching my 6-8th Leadership class, but budget cuts happened and we had to surplus teachers. With that in mind, I lost my classes and was moved to AVID, which I loved any way. It was bitter sweet to take my Leadership classes and give them to other teachers. I was allowed to keep one class of 6th graders. I was moved to AVID in the beginning of October. I am currently teaching 6-7th graders which was great, but now it was like the first day of school again, I had to go over my ritual and routines, my expectations, and try to figure out where I needed to start. So, I decided to teach them how to do Cornell notes. You know I am a Pinterest fanatic, so I needed something that will help my 6th graders to remember how to use their Cornell Notes and remediation for my 7th graders. So the search began. I found an image, so I constructed my bulletin board.
Now, that was done. The next lesson I started was how to do a tutorial. I needed another visual to help them with the Tutorial Request Form (TRF). I found another idea that was on Pinterest, but they used chalk paint on the wall, but I did not want to do that because I change rooms each year. So, the light bulb went off in my head and I came up with placing black bulletin board paper on my closet door and I had a couple of my students create the TRF on the door with chalk. It came out great.
