Parking Lot

Parking Lot

I went to my old primary school today from morning to lunch into a Grade One/Two class to observe. What a wonderful experience! There is an entire new school. No more is the school just consisting of portables. The school is now environmentally friendly and has a rising enrollment. The room I was in had a brilliant technique that I feel deserves recognition in my blog posting. As the title suggests, this was called Parking Lot. Under a picture of a parking lot symbol there are four laminated A4 sheets of paper consisting of:

• What is working well
• Something that needs improving
• Any issues, concerns or problems
• Questions.

Photograph of Parking Lot on wall of classroom

The purpose of the above is where students will write down anything they feel needs to be discussed as a group onto a stickylabel and will place this onto one of the four squares in the parking lot. When there is designated time to look over the parking lot, whatever stickylabel is "parked" in these spaces will be discussed as a group, and that way, it allows for issues to be resolved without identification of any students who might be in the wrong. This is an extremely vital tool that I will be most definitely be implementing in my future classroom.