What My Classroom Actually Looks Like

This weekend, I spent a proficient chunk of fourth dimension cleaning at my inbox. Notice, I didn't tell cleaning out my inbox. Despite spending 6+ hours organizing in addition to writing replies, I even in addition to then stimulate got 205 or in addition to then e-mails that require some type of activity or response. This is what I acquire for putting off answering e-mails for pretty much the entire firstly semester. Oops...

Anywho, inwards i of those email replies I was writing, I flora myself proverb something to this extent: I strive to endure an honest person, in addition to I desire my spider web log to reverberate that honesty. Someone had thanked me for the fact that I even in addition to then blogged most ideas fifty-fifty when they didn't precisely operate out every bit I would stimulate got hoped inwards my classroom. Yes, nosotros all stimulate got our lessons that flop. And, I experience similar I stimulate got to spider web log most those lessons inwards social club to acquire from them. Learning through reflecting on my spider web log almost variety of redeems the flopped lesson. After all, if yous acquire something from it, it must stimulate got been worthwhile.

The remainder of this post volition endure me trying to endure honest. The persuasion has been on my take away heed since August. At the get-go of every schoolhouse year, nosotros laid upward up our classrooms in addition to accept pictures to post on the Internet. Everything is inwards its perfect place. Shelves are organized. Desks are gleaming. (Of course, my classroom is never quite perfect. There ever seems to endure that pile of posters I haven't gotten to a greater extent than or less to laminating in addition to hanging or something...)

At the get-go of the schoolhouse year, my room looked similar this. This is non me. This is non reality. I want this was reality. In reality, I'm incredibly disorganized. It's bad. When I was inwards school, I would secretly estimate my teachers for their messy desks. Now, I'm the i amongst the messy desk. Yeah. I told a pupil i solar daytime that I actually only needed a secretarial assistant or assistant. Her reply? "You know, Ms. Hagan. Every other instructor has the exact same amount of fourth dimension inwards their solar daytime every bit yous do. And, none of their desks await similar yours!" Ouch.

So, are yous laid upward to run into what my classroom actually looks like? Now, these pictures were taken on our firstly solar daytime dorsum from Christmas Break. It was a professional person solar daytime without the kids, in addition to then I had fourth dimension to build clean my room upward in addition to acquire firstly semester grades finalized.

Disorganized Calculators in addition to Christmas Decor That Never Got Hung Up

The (Very Disorganized) Back Table of Supplies

The View From The Door
(If yous couldn't tell - nosotros spent the finally solar daytime of the semester playing board games.)

North Side of Classroom
(I'm non going to tell yous how long it took me to figure out which primal direction to type...)

This chocolate-brown cabinet collects stuff. I loathe it.

Graded notebooks

My Desk

More of My Desk

Behind My Desk

Hope I haven't scarred yous for life.