How to Organize Your Classroom By:Michelle T. Jayme,T-II, Villa Cuizon Elementary School
Every class opening one big problem that faces the teacher is how to organize classroom. Especially if you are moving into a room long occupied by another teacher, it can be both a blessing and a curse Depending on the room you’re moving in. Here are the some steps on organizing things;
1. Find the treasure amidst the clutter. Start by eliminating clutter. Open your closet and cabinet doors, desk drawers, and filing cabinets and decide what to keep and throw.
2. File things up. Create different storage boxes for different things to keep. Example storage box for visual aids should be different for storage for pictures, etc.
3. Maximize your classroom .Make some specific corners. Example, one corner of your room will be the reading corner other will be the guidance corner, art corner etc.
4. Modify your room; find the best place where you can place your bulletin board, best place for cleaning materials for art works etc.
5. Make color coordination. Repaint if needed. A dirty wall is an eye sore.
6. Be minimalistic. Make your wall decors simple but meaningful.
To sum things up make your classroom conducive to learning.
Time Management Tips for Teachers By:Michelle T. Jayme, T-II, Villa Cuizon Elementary School
Time management is the act or process of planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency or productivity. ( Wikipedia)
1.) Realize that you cannot really manage time. Time doesn't change. There is only 24 hour in a day all we can actually manage is ourselves and what we do with the time that we have. 2) Find for the things that eating up your time. Eliminate time eaters. If using social networking site, texting, chatting with co- teachers or undefined net browsing consume your time much cut it down. 3) Create time management goals. Focus yourself to time management. Change your ways because you cannot change time. A good place to start is by eliminating your personal time-wasters. 4) Implement a time management plan. Make your goal into realization. 5) Use time management tools. Manage your time by using a table calendar or your cell phone time organizer, jot down your set activities 6) Prioritize. Start each day with a time management session. Prioritize tasks for that day and setting your performance benchmark. If you have 20 tasks for a given day, how many of them do you truly need to accomplish? For more on daily planning and prioritizing daily tasks 7) Learn to delegate job. You cannot do everything. Give some work to your pupils like cleaning and organizing other things. Give them simple things that are applicable to their age. 8) Establish routines If you start your routines right and accomplish it on time everything will fall on places. . Stick to your routines as much as possible.