A Glimpse Into Sub Life, Take 2

Simple but oh so effective 

    The school year is half-way over, and I have been in a grand total of 10 different buildings. I've taught kindergarten through 12th grade (I was only in kindergarten for an hour... thank God!), and I've been in schools with thousands of kids and in schools with barely 100.
    Today, I subbed in a middle school English classroom and during the teacher's prep I was asked to cover another English teacher's class. To be honest, I was a bit crabby at the news. I get it. We used to do the same thing to subs in our building. We were told to utilize subs to the Nth degree... use them for recess duty and lunch duty and anything else we could think of. But I was looking forward to reading the book I had brought along, and I really wasn't excited about finding my way to an unfamiliar classroom during the 3 minutes of passing time and then having approximately 30 seconds between looking at the lesson and the bell ringing.
     It all worked out. The kids were great. The lesson was a piece of cake. However, most notable was the room itself. This teacher is a rockstar, evident just by the organization of the cozy room. I thought I would share some of the teacher's rockstar-ism.
    I had to ask a girl about the tickets because those caught my attention. The student explained that the teacher gives a ticket to a student when he/she is doing something "good", and then there is a weekly drawing and the winner of the drawing earns rights to the coveted classroom rocking chair for the following week. Sweet classroom management plan. Rockstar. For sure.

This just made me laugh.

Middle school classroom management at its finest.

Such an awesome community builder. What is
more welcoming than walking into a classroom
where you feel a part of things?!