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CREATING EFFECTIVE
CLASSROOM DISPLAYS  
3 x 3hr workshops (dates)
Session 1
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How does a visually appealing classroom stimulate learning?
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Involving students: how to relate creating the display to their learning? Is the display an end-product or part of a process?
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Moving from teacher-directed displays to student-conceptualised displays.
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How to design/plan a display. How purpose affects the choice of lay-out, lines and colour.
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How to avoid confusion, clutter and being boring!  
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Background/frame (defining your display)
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Balancing unity of design with variety of pattern
Session 2: Simple Techniques, Amazing Effects!
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Interactive techniques: eg pop-up pictures; the slide tab; the spin wheel; the travelling scroll; secret boxes;
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Creating display 3D elements (this is a pre-quel to the 3D design work necessary for the Reading corner activity in week #3)
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Multi sensory methods & materials

SESSION 3 : Promoting Literacy through visually appealing Reading Corners
(Participants asked to bring photo of potential reading corner for class to consider)
Design of the corner
· Choosing the theme
· Adapting to the space (practicality vs visual appeal)
· What children are looking for in a reading corner
· Safety

I am conducting this course with Lee Kowling, one of Singapore’s most popular and successful children’s book illustrators.
A designer by training, Kowling is much sought after for her water-colour paintings for children’s books . Her artistic and creative contribution to the set of two books," A Home in the Sky" and "A Friend in Need", commissioned and sponsored by American Express International Inc., in which she teamed up with children's author Jessie Wee, won her accolades from book reviewers in the '90s.
In 2009 she illustrated a series of children books by local award-winning author, Adeline Foo, (‘The Beaded Slippers' , 'The Kitchen God' , ‘Chilli Padi' and 'The Amulet'.)

All participants will receive  a CD-Rom specially created by Roger & Kowling containing clip art of:
· Asian motifs. These are particularly difficult to find in commercially produced software.  Items from our Malay, Chinese and Indian heritage – eg kite, shadow puppet, mask, wayang face, temple, mosque. Bamboo, rattan, palm. Asian animals.
· Singaporean icons (eg Merlion, cable car)
· Silhouettes for family
· Stencil outlines for children’s writing /artwork (eg trees, leaves, fish)
· Openings (eg doorways, mouths, letterboxes – for containers to hold worksheets etc)
· Gallery of more than 100 classroom displays as a source for ideas