Using a calendar to help with time management can be elaborate or simple, expensive or frugal, and anywhere in between. The important thing is to use one that works best for you.
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The main purpose of using a calendar in your classroom is to make your life easier. Planning out your week, month, and year is one of the easiest ways to keep everything running like a well-oiled machine and help with time management in the classroom.
Simply put, a calendar is one of the most efficient classroom management tools at your disposal.
Use these ideas to master your calendar and manage your time for maximum results throughout the year.
1. Map out your year. Pencil in the units you will be teaching this year using your district curriculum map so that you know what you will be teaching and when. It doesn’t have to be elaborate, but putting it down on the calendar will help you with dates.
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2. Add important dates, such as holidays, parent conference dates, early release days, etc. During the year, you will be glad to have these details available to you in one central location.
3. Write recurring events, such as monthly faculty meetings, weekly PLC meetings, changes to your daily routine (i.e., library every other Wednesday @ 10:00, etc.).
4. When you get your class list and student information, add your students’ birthdays to your calendar.
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Now that you have everything that is readily known to you at the beginning of the year in one central location, weekly and monthly planning will be so much easier. You have a roadmap ready to go. Knowing where you are going this school year is a huge stepping stone to maximize time management in your classroom.
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I live my life by my calendar! Having a large calendar with everything on it (as opposed to my phone calendar, Google calendar, and journal calendar) is so helpful!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing how you use a calendar, Natasha!
DeleteI use my calendar to plan out topics I will teach and add important activities and dates.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of mapping out the year ahead of times with the topics you'd like to study and when. That will help in making cross curricular connections.
ReplyDeleteIt's a life saver for sure!
DeleteA calendar helps me organize my lesson plans around school events!
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