Being a teacher is a hectic job, with lesson planning, grading, and actually working with students. Organized teachers find that getting all their work completed on time becomes much easier, eliminating wasted time hunting for handouts and allowing them to focus more time on student learning. Organization takes a little extra time at the beginning, which more than pays for itself in time saved down the road. The following are tips to be an organized teacher: 1. Buy a binder to organize your paperwork. Find one that you really like since you’ll carry it with your everywhere. Make sure to create a nice cover or label–some way for you to quickly identify your notebook from any others lying around. 2. Add a pouch to your binder to hold essentials, such as pens and sticky notes. Use the sticky notes to jot quick notes to yourself or add things to your calendar or lesson plan quickly. Also add a plastic pocket to hold things that you need to file loose papers. 3. Use binders to organize curriculum materials for each unit or by grading period. Put a copy of the lesson plan first, then all reproducible or resources behind the lesson plan. Next year, you’ll be ready to go with minimal work. 4. Make a class binder in which you keep all information about each class and track parent communication. Add all class-related documents, such as a syllabus, parent letters, and the like. Use this binder to document problems with student behavior, as well. When you attend conferences, bring the class binder with you for documentation. 5. Organize your desk. Keep lots of little baskets and trays around your desk to organize small items, such as pens, paperclips and notes. Have a file box with hanging file folders, one for each day of the week. Put all materials needed each day within the appropriate hanging folder. At the end of the week, clear out and re-file any remaining papers left in the folders. These are only some of my tips. You may try these for somehow, these will work!
By: Ryan S. de Leon | T-I | Orani National High School (Annex
