Help me give my students a new shelf to organize our classroom books.
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My Students
Our classroom is an open and inviting environment designed to foster independent student learning. My students are thirsty for new materials to continue their education.
I teach in a public urban multi-age Montessori school with fifty-five first through fifth-grade students.
My students learn through small group and individual lessons, research and inquiry, and by going out into our community. My students come from all different backgrounds racially and socioeconomically and live in an urban setting. My co-teacher and I are piloting a combined Montessori 1st-6th grade classroom.
My students are involved in social justice and environmental conscious movements, taking a stand and trying to better the world. Our students work hard with the resources they have to follow their passions and find meaning in their education.
My Project
In our Montessori classroom, students engage in small group lessons on many topics. At the end of a lesson they are encouraged to complete many different follow up works, including research. As such, we have book about many different topics in our classroom. Currently, they are shelved near their content area all over the room, but this makes it difficult for students to find the books and put them back.
We need a new shelf to help us organize books in a meaningful way so that students can independently access and return them.
This shelf will allow us to set up a non-fiction literacy center, labeled so that students are able to find what they need without adult help. Building independence is one of the backbones of the Montessori classroom and will help students complete their research. This also will help free up space on our other shelves for other works that students need to complete.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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