Totally not ready!
I just finished teaching summer school and the summer is almost half over and I haven’t even made a dent in my list. You know the list of which I speak? The list of things that if you finished you would achieve Nirvana! At least that is what I assume, I have never actually finished the list before a new list was hatched.
One of my priorities is scheduling the library visits for the school year. Although I work in a 6, 7, 8 building, I still try to schedule language arts/reading classes to come into the library on a regular basis. Students are allowed to get passes and walk into the library but I love the chance to spend time teaching skills and talking to students.
Anyhow, last year I scheduled classes in but since I also am mandated by the district to teach/facilitate multiple research projects, it didn’t go as well as I had hoped (feel free to interpret that as total chaos and mutiny).
I vowed that next year would be different! (Feel free to add the “bum bum buhhhhh” music in the background of that last sentence)
Our district is an Office 365 district so I decided to use that technology to help with my scheduling. I got out all the notes that I had taken when speaking with the language arts/reading teachers and scheduled all of them on biweekly or monthly rotations depending on what they preferred. I started out on a paper calendar with many, many rolls of washi tape to make it beautiful. Continue reading “Ready for the 2017-2018 School Year?”