As August comes to a close and the school year approaches, area teachers are hard at work getting everything prepared before the students arrive this week.
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ROCHELLE – As August comes to a close and the school year approaches, area teachers are hard at work getting everything prepared before the students arrive this week.
The process varies from teacher to teacher, but includes many different tasks such as setting up the classroom with posters and bulletin boards, organizing the desks, viewing the incoming roster and, for many teachers, going back and looking at what worked and didn’t work from the previous year.
One of the main goal for many educators is to make their rooms welcoming to the new students as they walk in on their first day.
“My classroom, I like it to be bright and airy, as you can see a lot of my posters are positive quotes or colorful. I think that just gives a warm inviting place for the students, rather than a gloomy classroom,” explained Charity Prose, geometry and honors geometry teacher at Rochelle Township High School.
For many of the teachers the process of preparing begins once the previous school year is over and continues all throughout the summer. Some teachers will take a small break during the summer to relax, but the coming school year is always in the back of their minds.