Fun ways to organize a classroom?
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Your desk should be out of the way...you're not going to be sitting in it during instruction, anyway. Set up students to allow ease of communication during class discussion, based on what you want for that discussion...peer partners, small-group teams, or whole-class. Make sure both standard and "when you're done" materials/center activities are placed for easy access. Create a variety of hands-on, audio, and other extra activities for centers (usable at any age level...just modify content and visual presentation). Find out student interests and find/develop activities that use those interests as a theme tying back into the skills and content area knowledge you're teaching.
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as a teacher, I appreciate cute homemade boxes to keep all the clutter down....like to put markers in etc.  Big boxes to put books in down to little boxes to put paperclips in.
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Organise a table magic show.
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The best and most overlooked way to improve classroom education of any kind is to introduce the use of boardgames. I have taught for over ten years all over the world, and only when I use boardgames do students voluntarily insist on extending their classes for two, three, even four hours. Not only that, but they then show the most rapid improvement.\nCheck out the following websites for some useful background info.\n\nhttp://www.rpg.net/sites/edu/1-1.html\n\nhttp://www.rpg.net/sites/edu/1-2.html\n\nhttp://subscriptions.fasfind.com/wwwtools/m/208.cfm\n\nhttp://www.gama.org/uploads/nS/XX/nSXX7lbqv9r-V1glq3UvQg/GinEBrochure1.pdf\n\nGive it a try and you will be amazed. At least you will be helping to break the monopoly that the big textbook publishers have over the education industry.
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>you could get black peices of paper and little flashlights for you kids turn the classroom lights out and have the kids move their peice of paper over the flashlight and have them see that the light comes around the edges \nInstuctions\nMaterials\n>popsicle sticks\n>glue or tape\n>black peice pf paper \n>scissors \n>flashlight\nDirections\n>out line the inner circle of the flashlight\n>cut on that line\n>glue or tape a popsicle stick on the black peice of paper\n>turn on the flashlight and move the black peice of paper in front of the flashlight\n\n>this is what my second grade teacher did and i had a ball
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ask some classmates to teem up and do a short play :) employ some symbolical costumes and scenes.. that would be fun\n\n\nedited.. oops! spiegy200 came up faster with the same idea! :)
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Do demonstrations! For volume, for example, you can show a cone has a third the volume of a cylinder with the same radius by pouring water from a cone to the cylinder. Most students guess that the volumes are about the same and it's a demonstration that sticks in their minds. \n\nAnything outside of the classroom is great (if you can do that). Interactive stuff is always good. Get them to estimate the area of the basketball court or other playing surface. Or figure out how many people you could fill your classroom with if they were all lined up lying down.
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homework sorter? you mean an agenda or calendar
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Make it Fun!!! Tell some jokes...show some movies...do ANYTHING that other (boring) teachers don't do. No matter what you do, though, always MAKE IT FUN.
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I would organize by school district.\n\nElementary Teacher - Happytown School District\nSept 2006 - Present\n- talk \n- about\n- your\n- current \n- job\n\nElementary Teacher - Smileville School District\n2001 - 2006\n- Taught and created lessons and units for students in Grade 1 and Grade 2\n- Provided support for students with various special needs (behavioural, social, cognitive) in Grade 3, 4 and 5\n- Worked in both urban and rural schools [or something else to indicate you worked in two schools and adapted to their differences]\n- talk\n- more\n- about\n-  your\n- job
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tell everybody what you need to learn.  then make them read from the textbook and give project options to show you that they learned it.   say they can choose to write a summary, show you notes they took, draw a diagram, etc.  then move on to the next grade while the others work independently.  and have a good discipline system and keep it in place, even when it's tough.  if you let them get away withit it will be worse later.
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Try the Barnes and Noble.  I found a very good one that had a section for student attendance as well as daily plans and a long range calendar. It was only about $10 and they gave an Educator discount card.
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I think a great how to speech is to show how to make origami.  It can be a little confusing to explain but if you're up for the challenge and pick something not too difficult, I think the class will like that.  Another idea would be to make something they could eat but it wouldn't require baking or cooking. Some treat like trail mix would be cool.  Good luck!
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www.proteacher.com has some great chat boards, lesson plan ideas, content ideas, strategies, etc.  Good site, I think all grades.
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How about some beanbag chairs and a small couch.  We also added a story time theatre with teired steps to maximize space for many students.  Plus if the children are young include some toy characters from the books and even artifacts from different countries.  Plus posters of famous faces promoting reading is a great addition.
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Here are some ideas:\n\n1. Turn off the light before you leave the classroom.\n2. Separate the garbage. Recycle the paper, tins, etc.\n3. Save the water, and fasten the tap before leaving.\n4. Bring lunch in reusable material such as lunch box and plastic bag.\n5. In summer decrease the use of air conditioning, open the window instead.\n6. Make full use of the paper by writing on both sides of it.\n7. Decrease the use of printer. Use computer to save/ edit your files. \n8. Use emails instead of notes/letters/ greeting cards.\n9. Grow a plant on campus and take care of it.\n10. Ask the people around you to do the same thing.\n\nHope it helps.
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Start with having the students list some things they all share (same school, same town to live in, etc.). Then have them list differences (their parents all do different types of work, they live in different family setups, they worship/don't worship in different ways, they celebrate common holidays like July 4 in different ways, etc.). For their first class presentation, have them each present on something they do differently than anyone else in the class. For their second presentation, have each student present a different sub-culture living in the U.S.  For their third presentation, allow individual choice on a local, regional, national, and global scale.\n\nJust a thought.