Here's my board:
WHY DO THIS?
Give your students a reason to check the board. This won't work for everyone, of course. We all know that there are times you can write the answer to a quiz question on the board and stand in front of it while asking the question and students will still miss it, but some students will start looking at what is new. If I can get them looking over at the dynamic part, then they may see the The Plan (what we are doing this week) and Homework/Upcoming Due Dates.
HOW TO DO THIS?
I've already done the heavy lifting for you. Here is a link to the Extreme English Teacher Holidays - a holidays for (almost) every day of the year. It has birthdays of authors, birthdays of fictional characters, holidays of note for an English class, and sometimes just a weird holiday for that day.
Here is a list of pun for the Pun of the Day: https://docs.google.com/document/d/138WJ2uQJVJ7HO1yz-ENInyvkixqTRXvO/copy I just keep a print out of it pinned to the wall and I marked them off each time I use one so that I do not duplicate puns throughout the year.
That part at the bottom? That was something that I did as a throw away joke after I had a sub write names on the board of bad students. Turns out it was a fun motivator. Under Smartest Students I have a spot for all my periods. Then when a student does something amazing, wins a Blooket, scores the highest on a test, has an interesting comment in class, or basically anything that I want to reward - I go over and erase the name before them and write their name up instead.
What about you? What interesting things do you do with your white board?
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