With school just around the corner there’s still a lot of work for teachers to do both inside and outside of the classroom. Here are 3 ways to help keep teachers on track before students arrive.
- Classroom Arrangement – Keep students engaged and create the best learning environment possible. While setting up your classroom, make sure there are no hiding areas and enough room to move while directed at the focus of your teaching area and have students know where to find everything they will need for their lesson plans. This can be flexible throughout the year, from rearranging desks to classroom supplies, find what works best and be adaptable with your learning environment.
- Classroom Expectations – Rules and behavior management are crucial to success in the classroom. Plan on how to communicate effectively with your students, both positively and negatively based on your strengths as a teacher. These expectations also will let students know what they can and can’t do and help the class run smoothly. Align your classroom policies to your school and district policies.
- First-Week Activity – Start off with student engagement. After going through icebreakers, classroom procedures and routine, and other initial set ups, go through an overview of what the students are going to be learning this year. Here is where you can show off certain devices and/or lesson plans to get the students excited and intrigued by what is coming.
Make note in this first week of what worked and what didn’t, what you would improve or change. From there you can go through lesson plans and change or adapt anything that would work best with your students.
How do you get ready for the first day of school?
Sources:
https://www.wgu.edu/heyteach/article/a-back-to-school-checklist-for-busy-teachers1808.html
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