Clean up strategies I have used include:
-Selecting table marshalls who oversee the job each month. Everyone
gets a turn.
-Giving a point to the first table to finish (I have a recipe box of
index cards on my counter and do keep a record. The "winning" groups
get a reward the last week of school. Sometimes it's "good" stuff
left over from the year that I am not going to keep
-Making sure I have a clear place for everything and consistently
return items to those locations
-Paintbrushes I have students place in a plastic beach pail that has
soapy water in it. I myself wash them at the end of the school day
Small jobs like emptying the pencil sharpener I simply designate a
person-sometimes a special education student to make them feel important
-The last class of the day puts chairs on the tables and the first
class takes them down
I review these procedures at the beginning of the school year so that
students will get used to them
For collage and other messy work, I put an assortment of stuff in
plastic bins and place one in the center of each table and the kids
have to put teeny stuff in the trash and reusable stuff in the plastic
bin in the center of their table
I like to use paint cakes and put 24 colors on a large plastic tray
(got the trays for 50 cents-supposed to be $6 at the end of the summer
season-they have beach scenes on them-at the Christmas Tree Shop-they
had them again with different designs at the end of this past summer)
The table marshall gets one large tray for his/her table and returns
it with clean paint during the clean up segment of the class.
Most of these tactics work pretty well at keeping some sustainable
order to my hectic classroom-I teach six classes every day!
Barbara
Quoting Moose Wesler <moose@doodlecity.com>:
> Hello all,
> I'm wondering if you can suggest some structured clean up strategies
> that you've used. I'm teaching middle school art, and am trying to
> come up with ideas that will make for a smooth process in which the
> kids themselves take charge. All ideas welcome.
> thanks,
> moose wesler
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