Bulletin Board Ideas

[nafmeadmin]

As we get geared up for the upcoming school year, does anyone have bulletin board ideas to share? I want my room to be a little more colorful and clever and would appreciate some input!

[nafmeadmin]

You could go the traditional route by using terms (tempo, dynamics, style, etc.), or you could do a “work in progress” kind of board by adding to it throughout the year…adding composers as you work on their pieces in class (put up pictures, dates, major works, in addition to the piece you’re playing), or a board focused on your students in each section.

[nafmeadmin]

Collect all your past issues of various music magazines. Make a big space for kids to come up, clip out some picture, headline, etc., and paste it up to make a giant collage showing the enormity of the world of music. Choose a different student each day to add to the display. Good way to recycle too.

Gabe Villasurda
http://www.stringskills.com

[nafmeadmin]

Perhaps you could collaborate with the art teachers and have students create artwork that shows what music means to them. Or have students create artwork representing their sections. (During my high school band camp, different sections created posters. When band camp was finished, these posters stayed on the walls of the band room until marching season was done. It’s a great way to promote section bonding.)

When observing, I saw one classroom that had different bricks on the wall painted. Every senior got to paint a brick in the choir room. On the brick was their name, voice part (soprano, alto, tenor, etc.), how many years they were in choir, and what choirs they were in. From an orchestra standpoint, students could paint their instrument and how many years they participated in orchestra. I don’t know if your administrators would be crazy about the idea, but I thought I would pass it along if anyone had an unused wall and was interested.

Have fun bringing color and excitement to your classroom walls!

[nafmeadmin]

Work smart!

http://musicbulletinboards.net/

You can download bulletin boards kits with all the information already put together! Just print and staple!

Take a look at the website – there are plenty of topics of varying levels and intricacy. You can also just take any of their ideas and adapt it to your ensemble and school!

Jessica Keider

[nafmeadmin]

Throughout my years I have seen many different ideas for what to hang on the walls of the classroom or on bulletin boards. I have seen things from “Composer of the Week”, interesting articles about instruments or performers. For wall art and such you can always put simple things that help them learn things. I was able to teach myself the Euphonium just simply by looking at a chart on the wall everyday that showed the relationship between valve combinations and slide positions. There are many routes you can go, its all in what you want your room to look like since you are the one who has to look at it all day long.

Chris Wortman

[nafmeadmin]

I’m working in a school now where the director features different students on the bulletin board every week for the achievements in the ensemble. The director posts pictures of the student(s) playing along with comments and compliments that show how well the student is doing and how others might learn from them. This is not only a way to praise and highlight talented and hardworking students, but also create a subtle drive in the rest of your students as they compete to be featured on the weekly board.

Jessica Holcomb

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