CLASSROOM SETUP: setting up my special ed classroom for hybrid learning!

good morning from the starbucks drive-thru line i am on my way to school to start my classroom setup which is wild i'm in disbelief oh hold on it's my turn can i just have a grande pumpkin cream coming through grab your pumpkin yes that's it okay so yes i'm on my way to school and i'm gonna start my classroom setup today so i figured out a vlog this week to show you guys my classroom setup process i am not one of those theme everything the same kind of teachers i'm more of a functional girl and i debated even like decorating my classroom at all because i i do just want to stay functional clean simple but it makes me happy to have the room decorated a little bit so i am gonna put up um bulletin boards and things like that and i just have a lot of stuff to organize because it's my first time coming back in school since school closed in march so everything is kind of just like put away in cubbies like it's just a mess in there and i have a bunch of stuff to bring back like all of the stuff that was at tommy's on bringing back i just had stuff at home that i had bought that i'm bringing in so it's gonna take a few trips to get everything in so i'm gonna be doing that for the first part of the day and then after that i'm gonna be hopefully organizing and setting things up and then um i don't know if i said today's monday but today's monday and then we're going to be coming back on thursday and friday both me and my ta to kind of get things set for the kids so like plan things get some sensory bins set up separate out materials for them things like that so today's going to be more organizing and getting up the bulletin boards hopefully and we also have parent-teacher conferences so in between all of my organizing and setup i'm going to be hopping on my computer for a few parent-teacher conferences so anyways happy monday i'm gonna take you guys with me get ready for a lot of time lapses and a lot of disorder disorder a lot of not organized things in my classroom when we get there prepare yourselves like i'm preparing myself okay see you soon my first look at the classroom and i'm already overwhelmed it's just like it's just such a mess in here like i such a mess that's okay time to unload my car now all right i did it i brought in that green bag that clear box up there this big bookshelf which i was really worried about getting in here because it's so heavy but i did a great job getting it out of the car and onto the dolly and into the room then i have all of this stuff that i also brought in honestly i don't know why i bothered let me take off my mask because it's just me here i don't know why i bother going for a run this morning because your girl is sweating from bringing all that stuff in i have a parent teacher conference in 25 minutes so it's not really a lot of time to like start getting stuff done but i'm gonna i don't even know where to start that's the hard part i'm gonna start by plugging in my computer because i wanna listen to some worship music while i do all of this so i'm gonna plug in my computer get that started and try to maybe like start organizing a couple things before i log on for my parent teacher conference i call this game let's see how much we can get done in 10 [Music] minutes [Music] [Laughter] [Music] all right not too shabby for 10 minutes i cleared pretty much all of the stuff out of these filled that cubby back up filled these back up for the most part now i need to get ready for my parent teacher conference in 10 minutes so i'm gonna get on my computer get all that set up and then i'll catch up with you guys in a bit [Music] hello i'm feeling great because i am making progress so i just cleaned out that whole area over there there's like that bin left that i'm gonna put away um i was gifted this big box of seasonal decorations there's so much cute stuff in here i don't think i'll be putting any of it up today but oh my gosh there's so much cute stuff like the bulletin borders there's snowflakes there's pumpkins and leaves for fall there's sea animals for summer there's just so much cute stuff in here um here's more christmas stuff there's also valentine's day stuff there's just so much in here so i have to find somewhere to put this and also if you know me you know that i get very like flustered with clutter and someone gave me like a few boxes of math materials and manipulatives and stuff and a lot of it is like not on my kids level so i want to give it back or just give it to another teacher who could actually use it because it's just taking up space in my room so i think my next task is going to be packing up all of that stuff and putting it back in those boxes up there and like trying to eliminate some of the clutter in my room i'm also going to count the number of chairs that i'll need and desks and put the rest by the door and see if one of our custodians can come pick those up so yeah that's my update got my worship music on super loud just jamming doing my thing in here and yeah i just wanted to take a little break to update you guys but i'm gonna get back to it i have my next parent teacher conference at one so i'm probably gonna take a break in like 45 minutes so i can have lunch before my parent teacher conference starts take a little break have the conference get back to work so 45 minutes of hard work coming up all right it is 12 25 and i am taking my lunch break i have leftovers kevin made this last night it's ground pork beans green beans and rice and i'm just watching michelle reed's video i am obsessed with her so this is my quick little lunch break before my next conference all right i just finished my second parent teacher conference it is 1 15. it was a quick one and again i feel like i've made good progress but it still looks a mess in here which is frustrating but that's okay um i don't have another one until 2 30 so i think my next task which i am so dreading is going to be putting paper on my bulletin boards i'm really sad last year i had a lot of help setting up my classroom for my mom one of her friends who's a teacher which was so helpful because she just like knew what to do and then my best friend becca came in tommy came in and helped me a lot but this year we can't have help so um i'm just really dreading putting up this bulletin board paper by myself because last year i had so much hope and i don't really know how to do it by myself i sound like such a baby but i'm only second year teachers this is really only my second time setting up a classroom and they should have to do it alone so it's hard but it's okay i'm gonna get started or attempt to anyways [Music] [Music] so [Music] i'm pretty impressed with myself i'm not gonna lie like doing it by myself i think i did a pretty good job and got it done pretty quickly i still have to do the borders and decorate them and stuff but i don't think that'll take nearly as long i have 15 minutes until my next parent teacher conference so i'm just going to see how much i can get done in that 15 minutes and as always i'll keep you all updated i just finished my last parent-teacher conference and i cried a little bit i teared up a little bit because the parent was just so thankful for what we do for her child and for the progress that her child has made and the parent was emotional so i was emotional and it was just so sweet like that's what makes all of this worth it at the end of the day so that made me happy so i'm gonna finish up my bulletin boards i only got to this one because i had to return the paper and bring something to another teacher so i'm gonna try to get the borders up on the rest of the bulletin boards and then i'm gonna call it a day for today and this is exactly where i wanted to be i wanted to put most of the stuff away and get the bulletin boards up for the most part so i'm in a good place and yeah i'm excited about it i'm gonna finish up and i'll catch all up before i leave on the progress of the classroom i still have 20 more minutes before i had planned to leave so i'm going to go ahead and set up our birthday wall i didn't do the borders on this yet because i want to set up the birthday side first so i can see where to divide it with the borders but i bought this birthday set off of teachers pay teachers last year and i love it um i just hung it using this oh my gosh i can't think of the name for this stuff i don't know this string that i can't think of the name of twine maybe twine um i hole punched and hung it here it comes with our suite as well but it's too big for my bulletin board space so i just do birthdays and then i cut out this cute little font our suite and then we'll put all of our birthday ice cream cones here all right it is finished well with the exception of the ice cream scoops i'm gonna put those on but they have the kid's name so i will have to be careful about how i show that but yeah it's done and now i'm gonna put up the borders all over this bulletin board yay all right that is a wrap on day one quickly i will show you guys the progress that we made today so i cleaned up everything over here and put everything in their bins i got the borders and paper on these i did the alphabet at the top this is our calendar board i just thought it was cute i don't know if i like it or not but we're gonna leave it for now um got the borders over there done filled this cubby back up all of these were up here so i got that all situated filled these up with everything that was on here and got this bulletin board back here somewhat done and then i have this part sectioned off for our wow work they kicked the heat on in here and it is hot i'm like sweating so i'm gonna pack up and head out so thanks for tuning in to day one as i hold up my peace and for day two thanks for tuning in to day one all right here is the the day two progress i can't show you guys the board because it has student names on it there we go yes here's the board okay this is where we'll do student work and then here we have the zones of regulation set up the calendar board and i don't love it so we'll see if that will stay or not there's our schedule that i haven't done yet and everything else is kind of in limbo right now so i'm talking quiet because there's a lot of people in the building today and my door's wide open and i'm talking to a camera so it's kind of weird but um anyways i'll show you guys when everything is finished because right now we're still kind of unsure about the final setup so we'll see [Music] we made a sensory bin and a language arts center bin for each kid and they have their names on the front so we got our right sensory bin and then we have language art spins with a few different activities in each one and clothes pins and a marker in each one that way they'll just grab their bin for center time and then for break time they can do the sensory bins and we don't have to worry about cross contaminating their germs they'll just have the same one every day hey guys welcome to day three aka the final day of classroom setup i am so tired i think it's just from being out of the house for so long i'm so tired but i wanted to show you all just like the finished little classroom tour of how we have things set up for our hybrid model i already took down the webcam setup but i'll still show you guys where that will go and kind of what we have i have to be careful because there are student name tags and stuff around the room so starting here at the door right here we have a divider because i have a student who elopes so to discourage eloping we have a divider right by the door there's still room where people can get out so it's not like a hazard or blocking the exit or anything but this does discourage a student from exiting the room right here i have our schedule in our calendar um i don't even know if we're going to use this calendar because we will still have some students online so i plan to do that virtually or like on the smart board so anyways that's this is when you first walk in the room in this corner i have my table which i've never had in this corner before and i don't know if i love it but for the setup we need right now i think it's gonna work in the mornings when we have our whole group lesson and we're gonna be doing hybrid learning i'm gonna have my setup right here so i have a laptop and there's our webcam so i'm just going to be set up right here sharing screen to the smart board so the kids can see i'll show you their desk in a second so the in-person kids can see and the virtual kids can see the board and they'll be able to see me because the webcam will be right here if that makes sense we have our little library here not sure how much use this is going to get because we're trying not to do too many shared materials so i might just pull a few books and last year i use those book bins so i might make a little book bin for each kid so that they can have books to go through and then i'll sanitize them so here's the student desks i am covering up this part and a part up there because it has a student name so i have to be really careful um this is my student that elope so that's why there's dividers right there that piece of paper that you see up there right on the divider is his token board to stay in his seat we have these um plastic divider things on each of the desks it just looks really bizarre honestly and we have the three desks that are spaced out yeah filming in my classroom just became so much harder because i have the students names on things now and i have to be way more careful and i finished my teacher desk so that's our county calendar i'd have a little be kind thing up there my yes you can painting that i did during one of our staff meetings i have a note from becca up here that she wrote me at the beginning of last year a little prayer if i put that up last year and i put it up again this year and my little communication bill of rights which i think is so very cute that i just like to have hanging my autism awareness ribbon a bible verse from my friend minh that she put on my mailbox last year that i kept up that is pretty much it again i'm so tired so sorry for the low energy of this whole clip but yeah that is going to be a wrap on classroom setup as far as the plan for next week i am just going to kind of roll with it and see how it goes and make adjustments as needed i've learned that that is the name of the game in teaching but specifically in special ed you kind of just have to roll with the punches and make adjustments as needed so that's what i'm gonna do i'll have three kids in person and three kids online so learning to balance that for the two days a week that we're in person is gonna be difficult but we're gonna work it out thank you for watching uh give this video a thumbs up subscribe to my channel if you're not already and i will see y'all in my next video [Music] bye

Channel: Chaney Steinke

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Length: 17min 43sec (1063 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 12 2020