Teaching prop - Part 1: Things I must carry to class

I can never understand how a teacher can ONLY bring a textbook and a marker to their classroom, because that will never be me! Ask anybody who has seen me in action, they'll say that I should have a trolley to replace my enormous tote bags full of papers, markers, magnets, pens, and many more...

When I go to class, here are the things that I must carry:

• My one and only folder where I keep my lesson plans, notes where I scribble down ideas, my teaching schedule that I personalize, and class lists,
• A copy of whatever textbooks my class is using,
• Color-coded folders designated for each class I teach. In each of these folders, I keep all worksheets and other students' work. Every time I make copies of worksheets, I immediately separate them into the-many-number-of-classes-I-have and put them in their respective folder. And since they're color-coded, I won't have any trouble identifying which folder to bring to class! 
• Stationery: board markers (blue and black, must have! I like these ones with medium bullet tip), a lot of pens and pencils (enough to share with students who won't stop playing with their clicky pens because the sounds are borderly annoying!), colorful magnets, masking tape wrapped around a pen (instead of the whole 100 yards), Blu-tacks, and scissors,
• My quiet chime that helps me quiet down the class (my students call them my "ting-ting")
• A camera to capture the creativity and silliness in class (this doesn't happen as often as I'd like to unfortunately),
• A flash drive that stores the "magic tricks."

 I wish I were home now so I could take pictures of every item on the list, and for your pleasure, a picture of me carrying all of these on 5" heels!

Now to some of these may not seem a lot, but for a tiny person like me, these are more than what I can carry most of the times... I don't like having to leave the class unattended to get things from the teacher's room that is pretty far from most of my classes. And most importantly, I like to be prepared for the "unpredictability of classroom situations." So, I lug my stuff from class to class while thinking when I would have a superpower to teleport myself straight to class! :)