So...challenges and I have issues, apparently. I am actually making some progress toward a more organized classroom, but I am failing epically at posting about it. This is probably because I am...ahem...several weeks behind. With 27 students, no assistant (but I do have a WONDERFUL tutor 3 days a week), and plenty of committee meetings, there hasn't been a lot of time for me to actually WORK in my classroom. Well, other than the obvious teaching part.
My teacher work space is not exactly typical. As I noted before, I got rid of my traditional teacher desk years ago. I am a clutter queen, so the less space I have to junk up, the less junky I get. I was accumulating some paper debris and some unnecessary pen/pencil/marker mess, so I worked to streamline my storage and to put things away when I was finished with them. Sometimes I feel like I need to clean out my desk every time I tell a student to do so. I feel like a hypocrite when I have sloppiness hanging out everywhere and tell them to get it together!
So again--this is my before: I really wish I could get that *#%$ TV off the wall...
And here is my after:
I know this may not look like a big change to some, but the little changes I made make me feel so much better! I still want to work on my shelves above the counter. I do use a lot of the books and binders on a regular basis, so I don't want to shove the whole thing away in a dark closet, and I don't really want to put a curtain in front of it. I think I just need to add some better bookends to hold it all together. I might get a curtain for the shelf with the boxes of books. I usually just access that once per unit, which I don't mind covering up.
I still have dust bunny colonies on my computer area. Is anyone else plagued with a classroom with extreme amounts of dust? I think it comes from the ancient school design.
Anyway, here is my progress and here I am {finally} linking up!
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