Desk Probes

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Why Why use this card? Benefits classroom users’ will get when they use this card:

• Involving students in designing and decorating classroom space.

• Turning desks into a mediator between teachers and pupils where teachers can communicate indirectly with pupils through their desks. For example, teachers can display motivational quotes and wisdom, or send an indirect message to students through their desks using this card.

• Making the classroom desk an interactive piece of furniture which can represent a student’s identity.

• Offering students an opportunity to personalise their tables and express themselves through their tables. For example, they can stick their favourite photos on the desk, or write motivational word, quotes and pieces of wisdom.

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Why Why use this card? Benefits classroom users’ will get when they use this card:

• Students can learn from each other’s desks, turning the classroom space into a colourful and inspirational space.

• It helps teachers to apply different teaching strategies: for example, writing the questions on paper and sticking it on the pencil case, hiding questions under the pencil case and asking students to look for it, or creating a competition among students for the most creative desk cover.

• Turning the classroom desk into a surface where students and teachers can create displays.

• Using this card will turn students’ desks into part of their identity, which will allow teachers to know more about their students.

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HowWhat do you need to apply this card?How to apply this card.

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What do you need in order to apply this idea?• Different cardboard colours of desk size to

cover each desk.• Pencil cases for each student’s desk with a post

note on it and a foam ball on a stick.

How to apply this idea 1. Cover each student’s desk with different

cardboard colours and ask them to personalise their desk cover to identify themselves through their desks. Your desk is your identity, how you would like others to see you. Teachers can give students some examples: stick on your favourite photos, your motivational wisdom, words and quotes, or write on interesting information.

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Students’ desks covered with coloured cardboard

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Examples of how students can personalise their desks

2. On the desk, give each student a pencil case, stick a post note on it and put inside the pencil case a foam ball on a stick. Use the post note to send messages to your students or use it as part of your teaching strategy: for example, write a question.

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Ask students to draw their feelings on the foam ball: for example, how they feel in school, or they can give a character to this foam ball.

Examples of the post note and the characterised foam ball.

3. You can make a competition for the most creative desk cover, or you can take a photo of student’s desk covers and display them outside the classroom.

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WhatWhat do teachers expect when using this card? What would the learning space look like?

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