Resources/Reminders-vocabulary walls, math charts, homework assignments, procedures posters, and class expectations Organization-posted agendas, calendars, standards, and bookcases I started to mentally categorize the purposes I had seen classroom walls fill: I began to think back to the many classrooms I had been in as a student teacher and observer. By this point, I saw my walls as some of the most important learning tools I would ever have access to. I made room for a student-created vocabulary wall.īy mid-year, my students had helped me redecorate.
I added multiplication tables, math facts, and writing conventions. I started out with a small library on an old metal bookshelf, a couple of inspiring posters, and some class rules, then quickly added my state’s content standards and a corner for publishing student work. In a way, they were still invisible to me. As a teacher, when I first walked into my own middle school classroom and had to decide what to put on my walls, I was baffled. But I didn’t really see them because to students, it is as natural to find something useful on a classroom wall as it is to glance at the wall in the first place. I can think of one lesson I was very slow in learning, even though all those years, it was right in front of my face.Īll through elementary and middle school, I glanced, gazed, and even stared at some of the most powerful teaching props in existence, the walls. Of course, I knew I had a lot to learn before I would be ready to teach. At the time I believed that meant I would wear turtleneck sweaters and have blonde hair that was flipped up at the bottom like my teacher. I decided I was going to be a teacher when I was in the second grade.
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