Classroom Audio Tour

The speaker describes their classroom, emphasizing the various elements that make it their own. They mention a bookshelf filled with books in different languages, a countertop with paper baskets and folders, a whiteboard covered in drawings, and a tapestry that adds a personal touch. They also highlight a wooden table with writing utensils and a broken coffee cup, a rolling chair, another bookshelf with translation dictionaries, and filing cabinets filled with paperwork. They mention a large window with blinds and decorations on the windowsill, and a teacher desk with ample space. Lastly, they mention a big whiteboard and desks for their students. The speaker concludes by saying they hope the listener enjoyed the tour and wishes them a happy summer. Welcome to my classroom, my home away from home, a place where creativity, connection and learning grow. I unlock my door and then walk it back behind me. I flick on the light and my day has begun. When you're standing at the door, there are many things that draw attention to the eye. On the right beside the door is a brown bookshelf where you see shelves and buckets full from Harry Potter to fun facts about George Washington. Many levels of books in many, many languages. Moving around to the left, you now see a countertop over the wall of cabinets. Going all the way to the corner of the wall, placed on the counters are paper baskets, folders and journals. A collection of unsharpened pencils beside my pencil sharpener sit and look at me. Continuing clockwise, there's a large whiteboard that takes up half of the wall, covered with many drawings left from my students the day before. Moving along that front wall, beside the whiteboard, there's a tapestry I placed under my giant mounted TV. I make the space my own by adding the tapestry. My students love looking at the different colors and images placed on it. They say it matches my vibe, which I can only take as a compliment. Starting out from the wall, perpendicular to the tapestry and TV, is where a wooden rectangular table to house my laptop that I can plug into the TV, so I can teach my lessons of course. Various paper clips, binder clips, post-it notes and many writing utensils. A place where all those writing utensils lie is in a coffee cup with my school's name and logo on it. Unfortunately, it is broken. There is a whole handle of tape and band-aids where my students broke it. They knocked it off of my table one day and the handle just broke. They felt so bad they tried to fix it with the tape and band-aids. Behind my table is a rolling chair. There is another bookshelf, longer and a lighter shade of brown than the one by the door, but this one has shelves and shelves of translation dictionaries with many languages. Some languages of current students, but also students who have left. These rows of dictionaries go all the way to the shelves that connect two large filing cabinets at the corner with old creaky drawers. It's filled with paperwork upon paperwork. The third wall opposite the door is mostly a huge window with blinds drawn halfway up so I can see the birds in the birdhouse by my window. They mostly come in the mornings, but they will make an appearance sometimes when I have students. Along the window sill, or mushroom street as I call it, are many mushroom decor trinkets that I have collected over the years along with the occasional gnome, frog, or yoga statue, creating a very bright and colorful window scene. At the end of mushroom street, once again, perpendicular to the wall and corner, there is my teacher desk. This one is bigger with drawers and more space for all the flare pens and writing utensils I could ever need. That brings me to wall number four, which is the biggest whiteboard I've ever seen in my life. It takes up three-fourths of the wall and only leaves space for that of the bookshelf that I mentioned before by the door. The whiteboard has taught many lessons, had many pictures drawn, and has a great view of all 20 desks I have in the middle of my room with a center aisle for me to walk down so I can quickly get from the board to my table. I hope you enjoyed this audio tour of the place where I spend 180 days a year with over 70 students. Happy summer. This teacher is out.