Post a picture of your classroom, and describe what you see -- and what you don't see that you'd like to
Here it is. My classroom. My second home. It's a chemistry classroom -- meaning its long and narrow with lab benches on either side. During the summer, they pack lots and lots of desks in the back of the room. I end up moving them to create more space in the back to move around. Unfortunately, the narrowness of the space doesn't allow for much creativity with desk placement -- although I'm open to suggestions if you have any!
One of my goals for next year is to be much more intentional about my word walls. The upper cabinets on the wall are going to have most of my vocabulary words (plus pictures). Seeing as I have two different courses to do vocabulary with, I may have to figure out another plan, but that's what my plan is right now.
One of my favorite parts of my classroom is my Wall of Awesome. This picture is from the beginning of the year, when the wall was empty, but it is currently FULL of student names. Whenever students get an "A" on a test, they get to write their name on a post-it and glue it to the wall. It's right in the front of class so students see it every day as a reminder to be awesome!
This area of my room is going to get a revamp this coming year. This year, half of the wall was dedicated to posting grades for students after big assessments. I'm going to skip this next year since all the grades are posted online and I want students to get into the habit of logging in to the class website anyways! The other half of the bulletin board was for binder organization. Since I am going to be doing notebooks in all my classes next year, this isn't needed! I am thinking of replacing that side with a word wall, or a helpful reference wall, or anchor charts, or something... I'm not sure yet! Ideas are welcome!
The front entrance of my room used to have these awesome folders for students to "rank their week" on Fridays with their warm-up papers. I haven't decided if I'm going to keep this or not -- should they still turn in papers instead of gluing them in their notebook? Perhaps use it only for exit slips on specific days? I'm not sure, but chances are it will not look this way next year.
Things I'm keeping for next year: Wall of Awesome, Seating Arrangement (unless I have another great idea), Exit slip folders (maybe)
Things I'm going to change for next year: Word Wall placement, back bulletin board
I would love to see if you have any great ideas! I am open to suggestions!
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