For starters, color is my friend. Each class I teach is color coded (files, turn in bins, sticky notes, markers, etc.)
I received a label maker for Mother's Day a few years ago - wonderful for quick labels to files, filing cabinets, books, shoebox containers, cupboards...I know what's in it before I open it.
I have a bin, basket or container for most everything. I have a separate bin for markers, colored pencils, glue sticks, rulers, calculators, note cards and activities I can use with my Advisory. I have baskets for extra pencils, pens, bulletin board items and CDs. I have a container in or on my desk for push pins, paper clips, sticky notes, note paper, etc. If students need to use something in class, I have table containers where I 'measure' or place the items they will need on their tables. This minimizes movement in my class. (I have a very small classroom.)
My walls are spaced for different things - I have a certain area that is just for my Advisory.
I have a student area in my room where I keep extra paper, dictionaries, thesauruses, extra pens and pencils, kleenex...whatever they may need (or run out of)...this is an area where they do not need my permission to take - it is there for them if they need it. In this area, I also have extra worksheets and a list of what we do each day in class, so a student can use this to reference what they have missed (and I'm not spending time in each class getting absent students caught up!). Everything is there for them.
I am very fortunate that I have two very large whiteboards. On my board in the back of my room is where I write down all assignments by unit (color coded, of course) and this stays up all semester.
On my front board, I have the daily schedule, date, month, and A/B day listed.
My desk has been at the front, but I'm going to move it to the back corner and more out of the way for next year. (I was in a new room this year...so it's been a learning curve!)
What else do you want to know? :)
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