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119: Six Procedural Systems You Should Have in Place in Your Classroom Now

 Ok, so this was the year that you were going to get everything together. You were going to overcome your problems of not keeping up. You were going to be better organized.

 

Do you create piles for your piles?

You know what I am talking about...don't you?

You have to emake yourself feel better so you spilt the pile up to make it look smaller. Yeah. This was the year that you were going to stop that.

Are you a perpetual pile producer? Hmmm?

 

 

To stay on top of what you do in the classroom, you need to have procedural systems in place that will help you make your teaching easier. Here are 6 systems that you need to have in place in your classroom. They will make your life easier and the kids will know how you want them to do things.

6 Organizational Procedures You Need to Have in Place Today.

1. Collecting work
2. Handing work back
3. Welcome back to class (The kid has been absent)
4. Accounting for all netbooks or laptops or tablets
5. Keeping track of class supplies
6. Substitute folder

 

So, ask yourself, "Do I have these procedures in place and have they become routine?

Here are some additional resources that will help you with getting organized.

Take care.

By the way, there is no better time to start than now and today. Don't put it off. You will thank you for getting these 6 Systems in Place.

 

Additional Resources

How to use Running Records

5 More Habits of an Organized Teacher

Core Inspiration Classroom

Classroom Organization: Tips and Tricks

Organizing a Substitute Binder

Avoid Stacks of Paper:Organize

Using Color to Organize the Secondary Classroom

118: David Voss & Communications Consulting

David Voss is the president of Voss and Associates. 

They specialize in Communications Consulting, Media Campaigns and Training.

Voss and Associates has been communicating education since 1999. They represent school districts, education associations, non-profit organizations and for profit companies.

David has been the Director for Communications for three large agencies of the Florida state government. He was the press secretary for Governor and Senator Bob Graham and for the Florida Commissioner of Education and University of South Florida President Betty Castor.

David also was a marketing executive for Apple Computers in education.

David and his team assist educators and many others with their training, in person consulting and on-line classes. As he explains their many services, David talks about specific skills that his students develop. From bridging to thinking like a journalist, he describes training that anyone who talks in public needs to have now. He mentions that probably one of the biggest mistakes that educators make is that they don't take time to personally connect with the news media.  

I so wish that I had had David's training back when I was first a principal it would have saved me from myself and many major headaches.

Do you have a need to better learn these skills?

Learn more at:

http://vossandassociates.net/

http://www.communicatingeducation.net/ 

Remember that you can also call David at 941-650-4614.

Enjoy!

Length: 26:15

117: Casey M. Bethel - 2017 Georgia Teacher of the Year

Casey M. Bethel is a science teacher in Douglasville, Georgia at New Manchester High School. 

He is also the 2017 Georgia Teacher of the Year!!!! 

Wait until you hear his passion for teaching and working with kids!

You will be inspired.

Casey loves teaching! He enjoys working with kids! 

He didn't start out to be a teacher. 

He was always told that he should be a doctor and he focused on that career field first. 

It didn't keep his attention. 

The medical pathway didn't seem to be fulfilling.

His search led him to science which led him to teach science in a high school.

Mr. Bethel loves learning. He is a role model for constantly seeking to understand and know more.

During the summer he works in the Georgia Tech GIFT program. 

You will love listening to him describe his experiences!

Casey is an amazing educator who will win you over with his passion and his warm and caring heart!

I thoroughly enjoyed talking with Mr. Bethel and I know you will be inspired by his thoughts and words.

Enjoy!

Stay in touch with Casey:

Twitter @2017GATOTY

and

Instagram @2017GATOTY

Facebook- GATeacher

Email Casey at 2017GATOTY@gmail.com

Call Casey at (404)-697-5417

Check out more information about the GIFT program at Georgia Tech.

https://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/gift

Here is Casey's school.

New Manchester HS

http://www.newmanchesterhigh.ga.dch.schoolinsites.com/

Length: 34:16

116: Contacting Parents - 3 Reasons Why You Should Contact Them Now

You don’t understand. You don’t have kids!

I will never forget these words.

A frustrated parent who was angry at a member of our team of teachers.

She blasted me with these words. Even though I have forgotten the reasons for the meeting and its outcome, I have never forgotten these words. It is now more than 20 years ago.

I have had kids now.

And now I do understand.

What I have learned the most is that you want someone to care enough about your child that they reach out and connect with you, the parent.

The older the kids get the more distance that starts developing.

It is easy for a teacher to put off or not contact a parent.

But...don’t listen to that voice.

It is important that you contact as soon as possible.

Not only that, be proactive. Call for good, not just bad.

Call because you want to inform.

Send home information just because you thought it was a great idea.

The more contact the better.

Today’s show is focused on the

3 Reasons Why You Should Contact As Soon As Possible

and the

3 Reasons to Call and Not Use Email.

Thoughts from someone who has been there and made the mistakes.

So what are you waiting for...contact ...contact...contact.

Length: 18:02

115: Classroom Management- Top 5 Classroom Procedures You Should Have in Place Now

Kids want and need to know how you do things.

You. The classroom teacher.

That is just one of the reasons why you should have procedures ready to explain to your kids on the first day of class. That way they know how you do things and what you expect.

Today I am talking about -

The Top 5 Procedures You Need to Have in Place in Your Classroom Now.

1. How you start and end class

2. How to transition between activities

3. If they need to use the restroom while in class what do they do?

4. If I am absent how do I know what I missed?

5. How do I turn in classwork or homework?

Often when a teacher struggles with classroom management it is actually a lack of procedures that stops the teacher from being successful.

As Harry Wong says, "The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines."

When you have determined your procedures you have just begun because now you have to:

• Tell the kids your procedures.
• Practice the procedures.
• Review the Procedures.
• Practice Again.

It is tempting when creating procedures to confuse them with rules. Procedures are how you do things.

Here are some additional thoughts about creating your classroom procedures-

Keep them short.

Do not have too many.

Consistently observe your procedures.

It is a two way street. You must also follow your procedures.

Post the procedures where the kids can see them.

There are always other procedures that you may need to add, but determine what the most necessary ones that are needed in the beginning and put them in action.

Here are five procedures that I believe you need to put into action first:

• How you start and end class.
• How to transition between activities.
• How to get permission to go to the restroom during class.
• If I am absent how do I know what I missed?
• How do I turn in classwork and homework? 

Take a look today and put them in action this coming Monday...Make Monday your do-over day!

Length: 18:18