Hey Gals,
Hope you are all surviving the March slump. I know I'm feeling it. But I'm really proud of each of us, and all the accomplishments we have made this year. I think it is important to take some time to think back on where we were in September as the year was just beginning.
I also can't believe that it is about time for me to start planning for next year already! I'm excited to make some changes and improve some of the challenges I had early on. But I also wanted to create a space for us to share ideas and strategies that worked for us in terms of planning, organization, and management.
I've been focusing on organization this month and I've been debating the merits of a thematically organized binder system or a chronological monthly or quarterly system. What do you guys use to organize curriculum and your lesson materials? Any other systems that you've found to be successful?
And I've also been thinking about how to organize my weekly handouts and worksheets. I think I want to try and have them organized in 5 baskets, one for each day of the week, but I don't have that set up yet. Do you have any other systems that work well for you all?
And lastly in terms of organization, I've been thinking about organizing my daily schedule. I find that my students struggle a lot in the afternoons, so I'm thinking of moving silent reading to that time period just to give them some chill out reading time. What "challenge" time blocks do you guys have and how have you been planning to tackle them?
Three ideas I had that I am excited to try out (and wanted to share with you all) is an individual homework log, behavior sheets, and enrichment block. Currently my missed homework log is just organized by date, with a mess of students, and if I want to see how many assignments a particular student has missed, I have go back and find them and count them all, but next year I want to keep them all in one binder, but each student will have their own sheet to record their misses. This will give me a quick at a glance snapshot of how many homeworks one student has missed. I also want to have a behavior log, where right after students change their card, they have to fill out a one page paper, saying what they were doing and what they will change, this will also give me a quick record of what behavior issues we are having. And the third idea is to schedule a once a week "enrichment" block, where students can work mostly independently or if I need to see a small group of students I can work with them. This will also give me a flexible block where if I need to have a make up science lesson I can do that. My last idea is one I got from a third grade teacher here. She has skills packets of things that she doesn't teach, but the students just have to know and they work on them at random times (like when the teacher is so frustrated she can't continue, or when they finish early, or when they are between units) So I'm trying to gather some ideas, and I thought we could all use each other as a resource.
Hope you are all surviving the March slump. I know I'm feeling it. But I'm really proud of each of us, and all the accomplishments we have made this year. I think it is important to take some time to think back on where we were in September as the year was just beginning.
I also can't believe that it is about time for me to start planning for next year already! I'm excited to make some changes and improve some of the challenges I had early on. But I also wanted to create a space for us to share ideas and strategies that worked for us in terms of planning, organization, and management.
I've been focusing on organization this month and I've been debating the merits of a thematically organized binder system or a chronological monthly or quarterly system. What do you guys use to organize curriculum and your lesson materials? Any other systems that you've found to be successful?
And I've also been thinking about how to organize my weekly handouts and worksheets. I think I want to try and have them organized in 5 baskets, one for each day of the week, but I don't have that set up yet. Do you have any other systems that work well for you all?
And lastly in terms of organization, I've been thinking about organizing my daily schedule. I find that my students struggle a lot in the afternoons, so I'm thinking of moving silent reading to that time period just to give them some chill out reading time. What "challenge" time blocks do you guys have and how have you been planning to tackle them?
Three ideas I had that I am excited to try out (and wanted to share with you all) is an individual homework log, behavior sheets, and enrichment block. Currently my missed homework log is just organized by date, with a mess of students, and if I want to see how many assignments a particular student has missed, I have go back and find them and count them all, but next year I want to keep them all in one binder, but each student will have their own sheet to record their misses. This will give me a quick at a glance snapshot of how many homeworks one student has missed. I also want to have a behavior log, where right after students change their card, they have to fill out a one page paper, saying what they were doing and what they will change, this will also give me a quick record of what behavior issues we are having. And the third idea is to schedule a once a week "enrichment" block, where students can work mostly independently or if I need to see a small group of students I can work with them. This will also give me a flexible block where if I need to have a make up science lesson I can do that. My last idea is one I got from a third grade teacher here. She has skills packets of things that she doesn't teach, but the students just have to know and they work on them at random times (like when the teacher is so frustrated she can't continue, or when they finish early, or when they are between units) So I'm trying to gather some ideas, and I thought we could all use each other as a resource.
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