EP16 Ask Angela Anything: Classroom clutter--what to keep and what to toss
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2015
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Is your classroom overflowing with stuff? Are you holding onto random materials and supplies “just in case” you need them one day? In this episode, you’ll hear how I was once forced to pare down my classroom to the most essential items, and the incredibly impact that had on my teaching. You’ll learn strategies for deciding what to keep and what to toss out, and how to be more selective about the materials you allow into your classroom.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 16 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth |
| 0:11.0 | into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:15.0 | Today I'm going to share some thoughts on classroom clutter, how to decide what to hang on to and what to throw away. You can visit Truth for Teachers.com to get the transcript, |
| 0:26.2 | links to recommended resources, and to share your thoughts on the show. Thank you |
| 0:31.7 | go noodle for sponsoring this episode. |
| 0:34.0 | Go noodle is a free website with interactive videos and games to help kids focus during the school day. |
| 0:40.0 | I love go noodle because it makes it super easy for teachers to find the energizing |
| 0:45.4 | or the calming breaks that students need to stay engaged. Teachers can sign up for free at |
| 0:51.4 | go-Nle.com. So today is the first episode of the new |
| 0:57.2 | Ask Angela anything format that I'm going to try out. The question that I'm answering |
| 1:02.1 | today comes from Emily who went to truth for teachers.com |
| 1:05.0 | and filled out the anonymous Google form there to ask the following question. |
| 1:09.0 | She wrote, |
| 1:11.0 | Angela, my classroom is overflowing with stuff. |
| 1:15.8 | I never want to get rid of anything because I'm afraid I'll need it one day. |
| 1:20.2 | How do I know what to keep and what to throw away? |
| 1:25.0 | So Emily is far from the only teacher dealing with this issue. |
| 1:30.0 | Many of us by nature tend to be, well, hoarders. We hold on to everything just in case. We develop |
| 1:39.2 | this mindset of scarcity because we never know what we're going to have from one minute to the next. |
| 1:45.2 | We never know if the school is going to cut the budget for pencils or paper or if materials are |
| 1:50.4 | going to come up missing or get destroyed. |
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