Due to the pandemic’s effect on remote learning, districts across our country are pushing for digital materials even more. Unfortunately, research shows that students tend to read differently on a screen when compared to paper and not in a good way.
Printers in the classroom prove to be a lifesaver, and not just because it saves time traveling to the copier at another part of the building every time a student needs a new copy or a handout. Try these ideas for using a classroom printer to make your lessons a little more exciting. Many are compiled with the help of HP authorised service centres in Andheri East, Mumbai.
1. Print on the Sticky Notes
While you can do this on a copier, it’s risky and even causes many copier jams. Whereas, it’s easy on a personal printer! Download any template, and place the sticky notes in the spaces of boxes. Ensure the adhesive is at the top, otherwise the loose edge of the sticky note could catch on the printer and crumple.
Two great ways to give students a sticky note to help them-one, remember a particular strategy you want them to use, and two, to quickly collect data about their learning on a parking lot chart. It will be necessary for you to have plenty of laser printer toner on hand for this one. Love the difference it makes to have printed sticky notes!
2. Decorate some Gratitude Banners
Students today are more stressed out, and it can be hard for them to see happiness around. Gratitude banners encourage students to find one thing they are grateful for, or happy about, and display it. It can also be a great team-building activity! Teachers can ask students to generate things they are thankful for in their classmates.
4. Students and Paper Models
Sometimes you need to explain the 2D in 3D, but you may not have permission to use expensive model-making equipment. Instead, teachers can have students construct their models with paper. There are a lot of STEM challenges available on the Internet with great printables. HP toner cartridges bought from reputable printer service centres in Andheri East, Mumbai can help you print color models.
5. Create Planner Pages
Students are struggling to stay organized. While many schools provide a standard planner template, they might not always work for every kid. Fortunately, these days many planner page options are present for kids to choose from, or they may even design their own. Print them off on the first working day for students to use to stay organized for a week. If they don’t like the one they are using, they can easily switch to something else instead of wasting an entire planner.
6. Print Differentiated Assignments easily
Sometimes students learn things faster than we expect, and we need another activity or assignment to push them to keep growing. Having a printer nearby means you can print something quickly for your fast learner. Also, it is without wasting paper to make many copies when only one is needed. Likewise, if a student doesn’t grasp something as quickly as you thought, you can easily print off an assignment more suited to that assessing level.
7. Print colourful Handouts
A student who struggles to read is found that he often struggles not with reading the words but with tracking the eyes across the page. A printer could help to print their handouts printed with different colored lines of text, to help them to track across the page more easily.
