Storage

One of the biggest challenges for a teacher is finding enough places to store everything in the classroom. When visitors enter your classroom, one of the things that speaks the loudest is the neatness of the room. We're not talking about the student desks at this time, but rather the overhead shelves, ledges, and table tops. If there are materials that look unorganized and spread everywhere, visitors to your classroom can not help but react. Take a moment and look around your room on a regular basis and see what needs to be cleaned up from a visitor's point of view. Students can help you with this task. Good organization may star with an organized room.

Another common problem, whether you have been teaching for two months or twenty years, seems to be the universal inability to throw things away. Almost everything can be used in some new and creative way in the future, but if you can't find it, you can't use it. Try to keep only the things you will really use and then organize them somewhere that you will be able to find them. Using inexpensive, labeled storage boxes is one solution to the storage problem...

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