As a student, you used to hate seeing scribbles and notes all over your work, especially anything you illustrated. Even a “Great job!” turned your artwork into a schoolwork assignment that was automatically fridge door work instead of a piece that could be framed and proudly displayed. Since you were so bothered by teachers writing on assignments, you don’t want to do the same thing to your students. How can you grade papers and give important feedback without covering a paper with red pen? Wait a second…Don’t some printing companies sell colorful sticky notes? They’d be the perfect solution.

In fact, sticky notes work well for a variety of teacher tasks.

• Long essays can be marked up with an entire paragraph of your comments even if there isnt actually room to make notes when you write what you have to say on a sticky note and put it into place.
• Forgetful children can receive a sticky reminder to bring a missing assignment in. When the reminder is right on the outside of their backpacks, there is a better chance that theyll turn in their work.
• Humorous or cute sticky note designs can be used as part of a reward system. Place a sticky note in the upper corner of each childs desk and put your initials or a star on the notes when the kids do something right. At the end of the week, give the children who get a certain number of marks a small reward.