So howdoyou totally nail your classroom setup?
Perhaps you’ve just graduated from uni, and have been offered a classroom role at a local school. You may have even relocated to a different city or town to follow your teaching dream. Maybe you’ve been on therelief teaching和short-contract rounds for a while and you’ve secured your own class in 2021.
创建理想的空间是学年开始时最令人兴奋的任务之一！一个了不起的教室设置将激发您的学生热爱学习。功能齐全的教室将真正嗡嗡作响。
No pressure.
过去的爆炸 - 我的第一个教室设置的回忆！
When I was offered my first classroom teaching job I was elated. It was all a bit of a blur. It was three days before school began in January 2007. I was given a Grade One class, and my new classroom was a disused preschool room. It was a huge, play-based learning space with a kitchen and bathroom, butnothingelse. The staff had a packed professional development schedule on the three pupil free days leading up to the start of school, so I had very limited time in the evenings to allocate to my classroom setup. The whole experience was a bit overwhelming, until I received the best classroom setup tip ever.
It’s Okay if Your Classroom is a Little Bare
我正在制作显示器，并试图将它们全部抬起，从后棚上移动桌子和椅子，试图绘制一个看上去比我年龄大的书架……这并不是全部发生。我的隔壁老师（成为我的非官方导师）住在学校的隔壁。一天晚上，她弹出篱笆从教室里抓起东西，发现我仍然在那里，过热和压力，她给了我一些贤哲的建议：
“您不需要大量'东西'。孩子和父母不希望在第一天看到一个功能齐全的教室。您将在几周内收集大量学生工作以展示。一旦您的孩子在房间里，就留下自己的空间去流动。”她说。
Hearing this I felt extremely relieved of the pressure I was placing upon myself to have a perfect, Pinterest-worthy classroom (although admittedly there was no Pinterest then!).
万博manbext手机官网下载unfortunately didn’t exist yet either. The time I used to create everything from scratch could have been better invested in learning about my new class; their needs, quirks and prior experiences.
Using one of our manyClassroom Theme Packswill give your room an instant boost, saving you heaps of time.
Beg, Borrow and Steal Your Way to an Awesome Classroom Setup!
Often when teachers are engaged by schools, it’s due to enrollment growth, and they are in fact establishing entirely new teaching spaces. This was my experience as a first-year teacher: I had a brand new classroom which was literally empty. Not so much as a single blob of Blu-Tack on a wall. If this sounds familiar I’ve got three words which will help you nail it at classroom setup:
Beg:
You may have been allocated funds to purchase equipment. If you haven’t, have a chat with your admin team to see if they will release some money for you to purchase needed items. In my case, the school had a classroom resource fee for each child and each teacher used this money for classroom purchases.
Borrow:
Visit the library, resource room, other classrooms, the sports shed, the office – anywhere in the school that you may be able to borrow resources from for your classroom setup. Physically going to these places will give you heaps of ideas on what you need, and what you can save money on by borrowing. It’s a great opportunity to get to know your new colleagues, too. Mostly, school staff are a caring bunch, and they’ll be all too happy to help where they can.
Steal:
I’m not suggesting youactuallysteal items from anyone! Make sure you visit some other teachers in your school, particularly those with rooms similar in shape and size to yours, to steal amazing classroom setup ideas. Where has the teacher put the desk? What does the entryway look like? How are resources stored? How are walls utilised for diplays?
让它感到温暖
How often have you heard house-hunters describe the feeling of finding the right place by saying “It just feels like home”?
We want our students to have that warm fuzzy feeling of belonging when they walk into their classroom. That feeling doesn’t come from a perfectly curated ‘grammable space; it comes from a familiar and welcoming purpose-built space made with them in mind. Your amazing classroom setup will set the tone for the year you’ll share there together.
Having the students’ names visible in the room is a great way to make them feel at home. Regardless of their age, they’ll love seeing a little piece of their identity already incorporated into your classroom. We have heaps oflovely door displays,birthday charts和group organisationresources available. Either download them as part of a classroom theme packfor a coordinated look, or pick and choose for an eclectic fun vibe.
Let Your Personalities Shine Through Your Classroom Setup
It’s no secret that I love butterflies. That very first year of teaching, when I had that vast empty space to fill, I taught an integrated unit oninsectsin Term One. Within a few weeks, butterflies, dragonflies, mosquitoes, bees and other minibeasts adorned my walls in glorious colour. I was so glad that I’d taken my mentor’s advice and kept the room minimally decorated – it really gave the students’ work space to shine!
我们有很多收藏Classroom Theme Packsto get you started and to help you inject your personality – we even have aButterflies Classroom Theme Pack!
Strategic Layout
Some things about your new classroom will inevitably be inflexible, like the location of the whiteboard and the phone. Use their locations as clues as to how the last teacher had his or her room configured.
If you have a neighbouring classroom with adjoining doors, take a look to see where the teacher has placed his or her desk, student desks, noticeboards, display boards and laptop table. If it’s working for someone else, why not give it a go yourself? You can always tweak things to suit your needs throughout the year.
不要用很多装备混乱桌子。它将非常饱满，很快。至少，您需要一个笔罐，垫片，文具存储以及笔记本电脑和日记的空间。我一直喜欢把桌子朝向门，靠近墙壁上有书架的墙壁。您最终获得了如此多的资源文件夹，因此您需要快速访问。万博足球体育
Seating Arrangements
It would be remiss of me to write an article on classroom setup without mentioning seating arrangements! But this topic could warrant its own separate blog post (for each type of arrangement!). As this is trending at the moment, we have灵活的座位资源万博足球体育如果您决定采用这条路线，请支持您。
Read about how a Grade Four class and their teacher organised theirflexible seating arrangement classroomon this awesome blog by Cassie.
课堂购买
As a general rule of thumb, anything you purchase using school funds (the stuff you claim back immediately by submitting a receipt), belongs to your employer. It will have to stay at your school, even if you transfer.
Anything you purchase privately, but for use in your classroom, is yours to keep as you move about into different rooms and even if you change schools. Keep your receipts for these classroom setup purchases, as you may be able to claim them at tax time (check with your tax agent).
If you’re eyeing off an amazing classroom resource that you couldn’t bear to eventually leave, consider buying it yourself.
