I found a two more Buzzfeed articles that insist they have hacks for teachers.
Here's the first teacher non-hack post I did awhile back.
The first one is called "Cheap and Ingenious Ways to Have the Best Classroom Ever".
Let's get started.
#3 and #4. I'm not buying chevron material and crafting benches out of crates. Kids are gross and they'll get them dirty. Also, if you teach 2nd grade or above, kids can't sit on the edge of a crate. It's cheap plastic with no support underneath.
#6. You can separate your community art supplies by color, type, and size all you want. They're going to get mixed up and messy because children. My students all have their own pencil boxes with their own stuff. I run a classroom based on capitalism. It's much easier to sort out the supplies they bring, make up for deficits myself (i.e. give them what they need), and keep everything separate.
#7. Use tin cans for supply caddies. I bought caddies for $7 each at Wal-Mart. They're much nicer than a pile of tin cans. I did try this once and ended up not liking how they turned out. Buying cheap little pails or containers is the better route to go.
#9. Any school worth its salt will provide you with an easel if you teach the primary grades. I wouldn't even know how to go about building one, let alone make it look like I didn't try to build it.
#10. This will only work if they're your books on your personal shelf. Of course no one will remember to put them back in the correct location.
#12. Have I ranted about these No Name signs yet? They are impractical because there's always more papers than clips and no one will look at it anyway. Side note: This sign hurts my eyes. Too many patterns.
#15. These crates will be knocked over by noon.
#16. Using a hook isn't that hard. I solved the "stuff on the floor problem" by holding the students accountable for picking up their own things. They learn to do it if you ask them to enough times.
#21. I knew my friend had tried this so I sent her a text about it as soon as I read the article.
#23. I'm not going to build my own furniture. I'm just not.
#26. I want to like this idea, but I want people to stop telling me to do things with fabric.
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The next "article". Or rather, just a collection of photos, was written by this guy who believes children are our future. But he hasn't written anything else about education and he doesn't know how to construct an actual sentence.
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Have you seen anything out there lately that you know would just never work in a classroom? Pinterest is full of as many bad ideas as it is good ideas.
