My Classroom

Well, I think I’ve got my classroom just about done for the year. As promised, here are some pictures. I’m not as cool as other people with all their blog knowledge and what not, so I don’t really know how to upload pictures. But, here’s my best shot.

This is my desk in the back corner of the room. The top has things about me for the students and the bottom will be where I post things for myself.

A view of the back of the room and half the computer lab.The colored swatches are for posting student work.

The side of the room with encouragement posters and the other half of the computer lab. The windows are covered with contact paper because the hallway to lunch is right outside of m room. All of those extra chairs on the side are waiting for custodial to take them out.

This side of the room has student files (colored bins on the counter), the homework calendar, and the hanging (red) file for extra worksheets. The whole left side of the counter is full of more crap I’m waiting for the custodians to take away. The apples at the top of the room are our countdown until the end of the year…yes I count down from day 1.

The front of the room has my standard/objective/assignment chart and my teaching cart. The cart has a computer, document projector, and LCD projector. This is all new for this year as I’m trying something new. If it doesn’t work, I’ll go back to the tall cart in the background that will not have a computer on it. We’ll see. I’ll have to move it around every period for the students to get to their desks. As you can see, we’re a bit crowded in here.

I’m not digging the shortness of space I have this year. In addition to my teacher furniture, there are 37 desks in the room as well as 18 computer stations. There’s just not really enough room to move the desks around in many different configurations. This is very different than previous years for me as I tend to move desks every 6 weeks or so.

I felt like I got nothing done when I went in today. We had to label all of our furniture to get moved to the new rooms, and in that process all 37 of my desks got nasty packing tape residue on them. So, I spent over an hour using some cleaning stuff I got from the custodian and a razor to scrape it all off. I also re-organized all the files on my computer, so that is very nice and systematic for my type-A personality.

With my room looking ready for the first day, I’m now looking at my syllabus, class procedures, and lesson plans. Things are looking up! I’m hoping to feel fully confident for Monday!