Efficiency and Organization for Educators
How to Have an Organized Classroom to Improve Classroom Management and Save Time!
How to Have an Organized Classroom to Improve Classroom Management and Save Time!
How to Have an Organized Classroom to Improve Classroom Management and Save Time!
Ask yourself these questions:
Are you a new teacher?
Have you been teaching for a while but are struggling with classroom management?
Do you wish your classroom were neater and more organized?
Do you need tips, techniques, and strategies on how to have more organization in your classroom to save time?
If you answered YES to any or all the questions above, keep reading.
Having an organized classroom is helpful for various reasons.
First, it could help with classroom behavior issues.
Having an organized classroom where systems are in place is critically important with respect to classroom management and behavior issues. When students come into class and observe that there is a system in place, they don’t try to create their own. Instead, they follow what has been set in place by you as the teacher.
How SMART Goals for Teachers Can Help Teachers Achieve More
How to Have an Organized Classroom to Improve Classroom Management and Save Time!
How to Have an Organized Classroom to Improve Classroom Management and Save Time!
Questions to Consider:
Are you an educator needing to set SMART goals?
Are you an administrator helping teachers set their SMART goals?
Do you think setting SMART goals will help you improve your teaching and, ultimately, the students’ learning?
If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, keep reading!
What are SMART goals and why do we need them?
It is generally agreed that the SMART acronym was first written in 1981 by George T. Doran. Even though it first was used in the world of business, it became popular over the past several decades because of its ease of use and transferability. SMART goals do not need to be used just in the business world; they can be used in personal life and professional life. They can be used across many professions and careers.
Doran’s original SMART goal criteria included:
Steps and Strategies Administrators can Employ to Help New Teachers
How to Have an Organized Classroom to Improve Classroom Management and Save Time!
Steps and Strategies Administrators can Employ to Help New Teachers
Teaching is One of the Most Rewarding Careers in the World
A teacher would tell you it is the best feeling in the world when a student learns a concept and feels that sense of accomplishment. The student’s accomplishment becomes the teacher’s accomplishment. New teachers already know or suspect this.
There are so many great reasons to consider teaching as a career. Working with young people is rewarding and gratifying. However, it is important for a person who has just graduated from college and is thinking about choosing it as a profession to know that it is not easy.
The Unexpected Factors New Teachers May not be Prepared to Handle, and How to Address Them
1) Teaching requires some showmanship. In order to keep the kids’ attention and get them engaged, the teacher must be able to teach the lesson well enough to keep the audience captivated or they will lose interest.
7 Highly Effective Ways to Plan a Lesson and Why It's Important
Consistent Ways to Increase Communication with Students' Parents
Steps and Strategies Administrators can Employ to Help New Teachers
Questions
· Are you spending a lot of time each day planning lessons?
· Are you finding yourself “winging” lessons because planning for them takes so much time?
· Are you looking for an organized system for planning lessons?
· Do you think some strategies for planning lessons effectively could help you improve your teaching?
If you answered “Yes” to any of these questions, continue to read this article for effective ways to plan a lesson to help you stay organized, and save you time in the long run!
Why Lesson Planning is So Important
Planning a lesson allows a teacher to systematically deliver content in an organized way to maximize learning. In other words, a teacher plans out how much time there is to deliver a content by thinking about the process in advance. Since teacher efficacy is one of the top factors that affects student learning, it is important to plan and deliver a great lesson each and every time to see results.
Consistent Ways to Increase Communication with Students' Parents
Consistent Ways to Increase Communication with Students' Parents
Consistent Ways to Increase Communication with Students' Parents
Questions
· Do you work in education?
· Are you looking for ways to communicate more consistently with your students’ parents?
· Do you think it is important for parents to be informed about their kids’ schools?
· Do you think consistent and organized ways of communicating are important in education?
If you answered YES to these questions, continue reading for ideas and strategies to increase communication with your students’ parents!
Why are parent engagement, involvement, and communication important?
Parent engagement is important for kids to succeed emotionally, personally, and academically. In fact, parental engagement is one of the best predictors of student success in school! A strong body of evidence suggests that when parents are engaged in their kids' education, academic achievement increases, behavior issues decrease, and social skills increase. The more parents are involved, the better the students’ motivation, behavior, and grades!
30 Ideas for Celebrating Black History Month in Schools
Consistent Ways to Increase Communication with Students' Parents
Consistent Ways to Increase Communication with Students' Parents
Introduction
Black History Month begins on February 1 and lasts an entire month. As educators and leaders, we can do our part to recognize, celebrate, and appreciate Black History Month. The idea is to plan ahead by figuring out how the celebrations and recognitions will occur, get organized, and efficiently prepare! Waiting until the last minute may only add unnecessary stress and anxiety so let's start thinking ahead about what we can do.
Celebrating and recognizing Black History Month is so important because we realize the importance of various cultures and backgrounds. We help the younger generations appreciate diversity, and at the same time, understand how much we all have in common as human beings.
Resources and Ideas for Celebrating and Recognizing for Planning and Organizing
Here are some ideas and strategies to organize and plan schoolwide or classroom celebrations. Choose 3 to 5 ideas that you can do as a school site.
100 Morning Announcements for Educators and Administrators To Use
100 Morning Announcements for Educators and Administrators To Use
100 Morning Announcements for Educators and Administrators To Use
As educators, we try to instill more than just academic knowledge in the minds of our students. We try to teach them to be good human beings, be ready for the future, have strong coping skills, and so much more! Social-emotional learning can help students improve not just their life skills, but also academic skills by helping them become more engaged in school. There are so many benefits to teaching social-emotional skills, even if just once or twice each week, at every level from kindergarten through 12th grade. The benefits include:
- Kids developing into more empathetic adults
- Creating and maintaining positive relationships
- Learning to make responsible decisions
- Goal setting
- Developing interpersonal skills
- Learning coping skills with life's tough situations
- Becoming kinder towards others
- Learning strong leadership skills and self-confidence
- Better communication skills
- Overcoming challenges and having a growth mindset
With so much to do during the day and so many lessons to teach, it's difficult to incorporate time for social-emotional learning. This is where organization and planning come into play. If we plan effectively and use our time wisely as educators (understanding the importance of teaching social-emotional skills), we can try to teach the skills our students need to develop and succeed not just as kids, but as adults. One way to do this is through morning announcements. Whether a teacher or an administrator, you can make morning announcements and speak to each of the topics listed here...all 100!
An Organized Approach to Fundraising for School Advisors: 7 Steps
100 Morning Announcements for Educators and Administrators To Use
100 Morning Announcements for Educators and Administrators To Use
Fundraising is fun for most students because, in the process of collecting money for a cause, they get to interact with others face-to-face. They become creative and learn from the process. Plus, they enjoy working with one another in the organization for a common cause. Kids who raise funds within organizations also learn the value of giving, generosity, and charity.
Some fundraising activities are so fun and popular that they become an expectation and a staple at the school site. What starts out as means to raise money becomes so popular that it becomes an expectation to hold the event on school grounds year after year. For example, a school could have a father-daughter dance to raise money. Due to its popularity and success, the following year it might be an expectation to hold the event again. The event will not be seen as a fundraiser in the eyes of its student body and staff but as a schoolwide event.
General school finances cannot fully support all functions that students seek. There is usually a lack of funds both in private and public schools to fund every activity or need. Therefore, fundraising is a key component for a school organization to function and meet its goals. A well-developed but easy-to-understand plan will help you succeed with your fundraising events and activities throughout the school year.
7 Steps of an Organized, Planned, and Efficient Fundraiser at Schools
If you are running a school organization as an advisor, here are 7 specific steps to help keep you organized, efficient, and successful in the process of fundraising.
1) Formulate a realistic goal that includes how much you want to raise and by when.