Room Tours
Most teachers I know love looking around other classrooms and schools. It's an undervalued opportunity for learning and a wellspring of ideas that pre-dates Pinterest by many, many years!
As a beginning teacher I shared a house with two others and we would have a wonderful tradition every year on the night before school went back. We'd get takeaways for tea, maybe go to a movie and we would do a school tour. Each of us taught at different schools so each of us would get to look around many other classrooms on the night before school went back. It was a great time for ideas, working out what we liked and what we didn't, picking up tips for teaching, display, table arrangement and organisational systems. It also affirmed in our minds the importance of classroom environment as an influence on engagement, community and wellbeing.
I've had a lot of different classrooms. And I've always enjoyed taking photos of the kids and the rooms. I had posted heaps on the 'sort-of-sister-site' to this one but I thought I'd get a bit serious and put a few classroom tour type photos here.
As a beginning teacher I shared a house with two others and we would have a wonderful tradition every year on the night before school went back. We'd get takeaways for tea, maybe go to a movie and we would do a school tour. Each of us taught at different schools so each of us would get to look around many other classrooms on the night before school went back. It was a great time for ideas, working out what we liked and what we didn't, picking up tips for teaching, display, table arrangement and organisational systems. It also affirmed in our minds the importance of classroom environment as an influence on engagement, community and wellbeing.
I've had a lot of different classrooms. And I've always enjoyed taking photos of the kids and the rooms. I had posted heaps on the 'sort-of-sister-site' to this one but I thought I'd get a bit serious and put a few classroom tour type photos here.