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":
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| I was hoping this was actually a Commodor! Just rulers and compasses. |
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| Rows and junk everywhere |
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| My boxes, a projector, and a growing pile of recycling |
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| Extremely old and rusted cabinet with disgusting things in it |
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| Mess galore! |
Now for the "after":
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| Set up my desks in groups, contact paper on my desk, new bookcase |
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| Emptied old bookshelves, and a closer look at my groups |
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| Tiny row of laptops! My blackboard near the door. |
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| My MTBoS posters! I had to make it smaller to fit on my wall |
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| My daily setup, inspired by mathequalslove |
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| My back wall with function dancer inspired by MTBoS |
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| More of the classroom |
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| My smartboard!! |
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| My lovely desk, very homey. Found a coat rack in the basement of the school :) |
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| The whole "shebang" |
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| 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:
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| Front/Back |
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| 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!
