1. Design Question 6
What will I do to establish and maintain classroom rules and procedures?
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2. Module 16 Effective Classroom Organization
The way teachers organize their classrooms communicates to the students how they will manage instruction and facilitate student learning.
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3. Key Aspects of Room Organization
How a teacher:
Organizes physical space
Promotes effective traffic flow
Structures various components of the room, especially students’ access to centers, materials, technology and equipment page 199

4. Recommendations for Classroom Practice
Ensuring student access to learning centers, technology, and equipment
Decorating the room to reinforce learning
Preparing and organizing materials
Arranging students’ desks, chairs, and teacher work area page 201

5. Ensuring student access to learning centers, technology and equipment
Considerations:
Number of centers needed
Primary patterns of movement page 201

6. Ensuring student access to learning centers, technology and equipment
Also consider placement of centers relative to materials, books, other resources; placement of computers, printers, and equipment that require special placement for safety reasons Page 201

7. Ensuring student access to learning centers, technology and equipment
Finally consider placing bookshelves to be easily accessed but do not create traffic jams or limited teacher view of students Page 201

8. Decorating room to reinforce learning
Things to consider:
What do you want students to see when they enter the room?
Available space on walls for bulletin boards, calendars, displays to post learning goals (I can statements), assignments, announcements, anchor charts, and student work
Poems, vocabulary, rules, schedule, word walls page 203

9. Preparing and organizing materials
The more teachers pay attention to ensuring that required materials are prepared and organized, the greater the chances that classrooms will effectively promote learning for all students. Pages

10. Arranging student’s desks, chairs and teacher’s work area
Consider: safety, whole group areas, small group areas, storage areas, student visibility of teacher, seating arrangement that encourages best student production page

11. Scale for module 16: Effective Classroom Organization
Innovating
Applying
Developing
Beginning
Not using
Adapts and creates new strategies for unique student needs and situations.
Organizes the physical layout of the classroom to facilitate movement and focus on learning and monitors the impact of the environment on student learning
Organizes the physical layout of the classroom to facilitate movement and focus on learning
Uses strategy incorrectly or with parts missing
Strategy was called for but not exhibited.

12. Teacher Evidence
The physical layout of the classroom has clear traffic patterns
The physical layout of the classroom provides easy access to material and centers
The classroom is decorated in a way that enhances student learning
Bulletin boards relate to current content
Students’ work is displayed

13. Student Evidence Students move easily about the classroom
Students make use of materials and learning centers
Students attend to examples of their work that are displayed
Students attend to information on the bulletin boards
Students can easily focus on instruction