In 2007, I was the newest staff member at LCC, and I shared a classroom with a teacher who let me know that she’d had the room’s supply closet organized this way since 1999 and she had no intention of moving a single thing to make room for my supplies. Also, she knew exactly where everything was and that she’d know if my students ever touched her flashcards or books.
We have a new college intern at my school now, who’s teaching one conversation class per week. I really took a lot of joy in setting her up in my classroom, showing her where I keep my speaking games, crayons, bingo cards, books, my secret backup lesson for bad days, etc. Here’s how to use the projector and the copier. Please, come in, move the chairs around however you like, this is your room one afternoon a week.
There are a lot of things people told me would change when I got older. These are usually sad things, about losing interest in my hobbies or falling out of love with my husband or finding all young people annoying, and it’s been really nice to not get older that way.
