The Shout-Out Board

How it works

Make sure you read every slip before it goes up on the board. Most will be exactly what you hoped for, but a few may be a joke at somebody’s expense, so it is worth checking them first.

1

The header and the rules go up once.

Put the header and the rules at the top of a board or a clear bit of wall, and leave a stack of slips and a pen next to it, where students can reach them.

2

Slips go in a tray during the week.

As slips come in during the week, keep them off the wall until Friday. It helps to write the first few yourself, so that no student has to be the first to put one in.

3

Friday, two minutes.

On Friday, read through the slips, put them up on the board and read two or three of them out loud to the form. Hearing them read out makes students more likely to write more the following week.

The fourth page lists twelve things worth a shout-out that are not achievements, such as: said the thing nobody else in the room would say, sat next to the new student, kept going with something they are not good at, took a correction without arguing. These give every student a chance of being on the board, including the ones who don’t usually win things.

Get the resource

You only need to print the header and the rules once, then a couple of sheets of slips each week. The last page, the list of twelve things worth a shout-out, is for you to keep in your drawer.