My Classroom

I wanted to show you a few pictures from the middle school and my classroom there. The schools here are very nice and a lot of money get's put into them.

First things first, if you wanted to check out the school website, it's kind of hard to find:
http://www.nsbsd.org/schools/hms

Eben Hopson Middle School is named after a town hero and a huge advocate for education. Durring the time when students from here were sent to boarding schools, as a promising student Eben wrote to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C., to complain about the school principal's use of unpaid student labor on small public works projects. Because the school didn't appreciate the political action by Hopson got him branded as a trouble maker and he was not allowed to go on to boarding school to continue his education. He later became the Mayor of Barrow and is his family line is still present in the town today. He stands for never backing down from your education and is a great local hero to model the school philosophy. His statue is the the first thing all students see each day after entering the building.


There are about 65 students in each grade and the school holds 6th-8th graders. I am working with mostly 7th grade students, Katie is working with 8th graders, and Peter gets a mix of both. About 90% of the students are Inupiaq (Eskimo) and the other 10% are from Pacific Islands (mostly Samoa).


The classrooms themselves are spacious and each are equipped with a Smartboard, sink, and a water fountain. Most classrooms have a laptop cart and next year they hope that each classroom will have a set of laptops (some teachers currently have to share) meaning that each student will have access to a computer in every class they are in. The classrooms have large windows, especially mine, but they have to be closed most of the day because the sun is too bright to keep them open.




I took some pictures to hopefully give you a better understanding of what my classroom looks like.

This is my little desk area right next to my co-operating teacher's.

Here is the front of the classroom. You can see the Smartboard and some of the student work on the front of the room.

Here is the whole classroom

The students are allowed to keep their books, notebooks, and journals in specific places around the room.

Wolves are the school mascot and you see this posted all around the school.

This is the word wall and the sink