Sunday, July 29, 2012

Back to School for the High School Teacher Part 2: A Classroom Website for the Super Busy Teacher

*UPDATE (08-06-12) - The Back to School series consists of the following posts:
Part 1: The Sanity Saver
Part 2: The Classroom Website For the Super Busy Teacher (you are here)
Part 3: The Well-Oiled Classroom Machine
Special: The Student Edition


As I talked about last week (Back to School for the High School Teacher Part 1: The Sanity Saver), I've spent a great deal of my summer hunting for ideas to make the school year go more smoothly. Today's topic is one I had thought about doing for a while but I had never quite pulled it together. One of the classes I took in high school taught me how to use Adobe DreamWeaver to create web pages, and it was something I absolutely loved. I've always loved the idea of having a classroom website but I didn't really know the best way to go about doing this.

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Back to School for the High School Teacher Part 1: The Sanity Saver

*UPDATE (08-06-12) - The Back to School series consists of the following posts:
Part 1: The Sanity Saver (you are here)
Part 2: The Classroom Website For the Super Busy Teacher
Part 3: The Well-Oiled Classroom Machine
Special: The Student Edition



I've had teaching on the brain since mid-July. I'm just as ready to get back to school next month as I was to get out in May. Even though this is my third year teaching I'm always looking for new ideas to make the year go more smoothly. I've been Pinning all summer and digging around for teaching blogs with cool classroom organization ideas. It seems like the majority of them, though, have been for elementary education. Those elementary educators really get into it, and I would love to see more blogs by high school teachers! One common element I've seen on many teacher blogs is the binder/teacher organization tool/daily organization tool/sanity saver. I've taken lots of different ideas, adjusted them to my personal needs, and created my own sanity saver that I'd like to share with you.
High School Teacher Daily Organizer