By Lauren Korchok
Every student travels among eight different classrooms each week, and the classroom decorations they encounter are as varied as the teaching personalities, but they all work to make each teacher’s classroom feel like home for themselves and their students.
From those in their first year through their 38th year of teaching, each classroom looks different. No matter how the classroom looks, teachers try to make their classroom bring peace to the atmosphere of learning.
“Students learn the best when they are comfortable and when the subject they are learning is hard,” math teacher Mr. Steve Dalton said.
Teachers and students spend more than seven hours a day at school. With flexible seating, rugs and pillows, and a variety of lights, teachers work to create spaces that can help their students to learn. Sophomore Bailey Battin said, “I like when teachers have lamps on instead of the overhead lights. It feels more comfortable.”
Classrooms bring peace, not just for the students but also for themselves. “The pictures that I have on my back wall are all the places I have walked, and that brings me peace,” history teacher Shawn Young said. Most teachers have brought personal items or previous students projects that bring peace to their spaces. Art teacher Indigo Hudepohl and Visual Art teacher Sarah Nestheide have art work from their former students throughout the room to serve as inspiration for their current students.
“I find it easier to talk to teachers when their rooms are decorated,” junior Grace Tierney said.
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