It invoked in me some distaste. It made me think about how we as teachers display children's behaviour and learning.
At the beginning of 2013 I began a new position. The previous teacher had left a form of data wall display for writing up in in the classroom. Apart from the fact that he had used a prime display wall, I just could not abide with continuing with this as it was a multi-year-level class and many students were struggling in their learning.
I reposted this photo in NZ Teacher (Primary) of Facebook and a lot of discussion followed. Some people were very opposed to these sorts of displays; a small group of others praised their variations of such a display.
I was heartened by the responses and passion teachers had about this topic. This was the comment I wrote to support my position regarding the above photo today:
I personally believe that these sorts of things should be in student's work books or their learning journals because any achievement should be communicated privately between teachers, students and caregivers. If a student chooses to tell their classmate then that is their decision. I do believe that displaying exemplars and WALTs and the like in the room is valuable, but I would much rather display the student's work.
So then I posted this to Twitter as a reflection on the discussion I had initiated on Facebook:
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