Pinterest App on IPhone
This is my second post about apps that make my life as a teacher easier. Of course, you can access the site from your laptop/desktop, but what makes it a winner for me is that it is an IPhone app., and I can get ideas 24/7 wherever I am.
Pinterest is a fantastic way to get ideas for the classroom. When you find an idea you like, you pin it to your board. I have so many teaching related pins on one board, I am already thinking of separating the pins into boards by category. May be more efficient this way. Great summer project!
Every few days I go on to Pinterest and either go to the education search or type in something specific into the search bar. I am never disappointed with what I find and there is a great amount of variety and styles.
Possible Board Categories:
Classroom Decor/Theme
Classroom Organization/Supplies
Math
Writing
Reading
Education/Teaching quotes
* Science would be one too, but I am not teaching it next year.
Many of the resources I find are linked to Teachers Pay Teachers, a site I had never heard of before going on Pinterest. Some are free, the rest are very reasonably priced.
Some examples of lessons and ideas I have used from Pinterest:
- Common Core checklists and student self assessment rubric
- Area/Perimeter/Volume sorting activity
- Figurative Language activities
- Format for weekly plans and set up of planning binder, so that every week the repeating information is already on the plan/ saves time
- organization of week's work into folders with days of week on them.
- a lot of new, creative ways to present information to my students in all curriculum areas
Pinterest is extremely valuable to my teaching now. It is sharing ideas with colleagues on a grand scale.
