Teacher Appreciation Week 2011

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Be Organized The First Year

Status: Advice for New Teachers
by Senior Member on 04-30-2011 03:56 PM

Be organized.  


Create files at the beginning of the year for all your lessons.  For example, my language arts curriculum has 10 units, so I have 10 of the following: 

a. 10 Actual Paper files - all related worksheets and resources.

b. 10 Computer files - all created Word and Excel documents are on my desktop. 

c. 10 Labeled Boxes - for bulkier books, articles, realia.


I also created the above for each month of the year.  For example, April has everything related to Spring, Easter, Open House, art project templates with samples, etc.  Everything was there, right where I needed it.  And it is a good reminder of what I have done in past years.  This process just takes minutes each day to maintain.  Before you know it the year is over, and you'll have a great resource to use and update every year...everything will be easily accessible and available.  

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