Cubbies

Here is another creative way to organize student work which also helps students keep track of their class materials.

This system works in a connections (elective) classroom.  It would probably work well in a standard academic classroom as well. The teacher has two of these cubby shelves, one for the morning classes and one for the afternoon. Each row is for one grade level - 6th, 7th, and 8th.

It is not perfectly clear in the picture, but if you look along the first row near the right you can see that each cubby is numbered. Within each class all students are given a number which identifies her/him throughout the 9 weeks. They will put that number on every assignment they turn in, or save in their folder. This way, if their paper gets misplaced it can easily be reshelved into their cubby.

Students are encouraged to leave their class folder in their cubby so that they do not have to remember to bring it every day. Every day on upon entering the classroom students pick up their folder, and drop them back off when they leave.