Birthday celebrations at school can be a fun way to celebrate students and make them feel special. There are a lot of things to consider when celebrating: Cost, district birthday and food policies, displays, gifts, and more. Check out the list of classroom birthday ideas below to get inspiration for this
It’s important to help your elementary students be responsible when it comes to borrowing library books. Like all aspects of your classroom, you’ll want to develop a procedure for returning and renewing those books. This post shares 3 simple tips to help you develop your own library book organization system.
It’s hard enough to keep track of student work when all your students are in class, never mind when you have a student who is absent. Unfortunately, students being absent is an unavoidable occurrence. Regardless of if the absence lasts a single afternoon for a dentist appointment or an entire week
Organizing and managing a classroom can be overwhelming at times. One tool that I swear by for staying on top of things is teacher checklists. I use them all the time. We all do. That’s why it makes sense to have a go to checklist for all purposes like these
Before reading through the rest of this post about teacher organization binder ideas, it is important to know that the daily summary template works only if you are not required to write one of those super-detailed lesson plans for each and every lesson of the day. You know the ones
Teachers use classroom behavior management systems to keep students on task and to create a safe classroom community where all children can learn. This post shares ideas and strategies teachers can use for group behavior systems as well as individual behavior plans. Read below to learn more! 5 Behavior Management
When you have a classroom with a handful of students who exhibit behaviors consistently, it can be very challenging juggling modifying, documenting, and communicating the behavior. At the same time, you are working hard to meet the needs of all your learners across disciplines. It can be exhausting! This blog
Do you want to put an end to the students saying, “I’m done! What should I work on next?” Would you like a systematic method for planning and tracking student assignments? It is very challenging to manage long-term projects. Students work at different paces and sometimes they are absent or
If you are an elementary teacher looking for strategies for how to keep your classroom clean and tidy, then you found the right place! There is no tired quite like a teacher at the end of the school day. Your students have been dismissed and your contracted work day is
Before working in my current district, I taught in an inner-city school with a very transient population of learners. My class list in September always looked different from my class list in June. That was when I started to assign a number to each student. This system is often referred
If you don’t have a class set of clipboards, I recommend investing. They are usually available at the Dollar Store so it isn’t a huge cost. They’re so handy to have for floor work, computer research, centers to go, and more. They have become an essential tool for classrooms using flexible seating. The
Imagine this… Your class is filled with loud chatter, laughter, and perhaps even some singing. You do one little thing. Just one. And then everything changes. All you hear is silence. (And no, it is not screaming on the top of your lungs.) MAGIC. That is the only word that
