Classroom Setup

Classroom Setup

Phew!  I survived the first week!  First things first:  I wanted to post pictures of my classroom, before and after.  I have been inspired by mathequalslove and everybodyisagenius with my room setup, posters, norms, etc.  I took over for a teacher who had retired and left EVERYTHING in my room!  The following is the "before":

I was hoping this was actually a Commodor!  Just rulers and compasses.

Rows and junk everywhere

My boxes, a projector, and a growing pile of recycling

Extremely old and rusted cabinet with disgusting things in it

Mess galore!

Now for the "after":

Set up my desks in groups, contact paper on my desk, new bookcase

Emptied old bookshelves, and a closer look at my groups

Tiny row of laptops!  My blackboard near the door.

My MTBoS posters! I had to make it smaller to fit on my wall

My daily setup, inspired by mathequalslove

My back wall with function dancer inspired by MTBoS

More of the classroom

My smartboard!!

My lovely desk, very homey.  Found a coat rack in the basement of the school :)

The whole "shebang"

My view

My setup seems to work for now.  I get lots of complements on my desk :)  The seating arrangement works well too, but I don't like that my seats are connected to the desks.  I have just ordered baskets where I am going to keep rulers, glue, tape, and colored pencils in them for Interactive Notebook (INB) work and so on.

I got the idea for my syllabus from Dan Meyer and mathequalslove with the trifold brochure to go into their INBs and came up with this for my classes:

Front/Back

Inside

I will have to finish up with the rest of my first week in another entry, I have to prep for the rest of the week now.  Thanks for all the support and feedback!