Your classroom might be the only clean, healthy, and uplifting environment a child is in today.
Those are hard words to hear, but they’re true. Your classroom might truly be the only place where a child feels cared for, and why? Because you’ve organized, cleaned, and kept it bright and cheerful.
But let’s face it, with students, parents, and other teachers in and out of our rooms on a daily basis, it can be quite hard to get our classroom clean (let alone keep it that way). But don’t give up!
Keeping your classroom clean is definitely achievable and totally worth it!
These 3 easy and simple steps will help you maintain a clean classroom environment throughout the school year! Ready? Let’s go!
1. Get the students involved (Daily)
- make sure they’re picking up after themselves at the end of each day (no left over water bottles on hooks or trash on the floor)
- choose specific class jobs/helpers (ex: trash monitor, whiteboard eraser, etc., make them simple tasks that don’t take a lot of monitoring and yet have a vast impact on the class)
2. Get Your Hands Involved (Weekly)
- Vacuum/Sweep
- Wipe everything down (desks, chairs, doorknobs, etc.) This prevents the spreading of germs and keeps the cold and flu season at bay
3. Get Your Mind Involved (Weekly) Aka: Organize your papers-take the dreaded stack and organize it into three separate files:
- student information
- graded work/work to be graded
- behavior reports/parent teacher meeting notes
There you have it! Those are 3 easy, quick steps to keeping your already clean classroom both neat and tidy!
Of course there are a ton of other helpful tools and tips you can use to achieve this goal, so what are some of the ones you use? How do you organize and rearrange in order to maintain an optimum learning environment?
I would love to hear what your classroom does! Comment some of your ideas below! Let’s help each other think creatively!
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