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Survival Tips for the
1st Month of School
“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as
a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.”
- Albert Einstein
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#1 Walk in motivated!
Before class begins …
Exerci
se
Eat
breakfast
Give
yourself
peptalks
Relax
with
music
Medita
te
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“At the end of the
day, the most
overwhelming key to
a child's success is
the positive
involvement of
parents.”
- Jane D. Hull
#2 Engage Parents!
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Parent communication tools & apps
Remind Cel.ly
Class Dojo
GAFE
Smore
#3 Change your classroom environment!
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Makerspaces!
Learning
Stations
Photo by Meg Stewart,
Take it outside!
#4 Let students create their learning environment!
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#4 Let students create their learning environment!
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Decorate the bulletin
board
Photo
collage
Idea
paint
Design their virtual learning
spaces
#5 Be proactive & preventive when it comes
to classroom management
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sroommanagement
Come up with the rules together
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•Arrive on time
•Be nice to others
•Share
•Clean after myself
•Listen
#6 Bring Your Textbook to Life!
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Lesson Planning
#7 Build your survival kit!
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#8 Cultivate relationships!
#9 Integrate technology effectively
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Pedagogy is the
driver, technology
is the accelerator.
- Michael Fullan
Edorigami.wikispaces.com,
Andrew Churches
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Add a technology
component to current
lessons or projects
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Edshelf.com Graphite.org
iLearnTechnology.comideastoinspire.co.uk
#10 Make it fun!
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“The best thing a
human being can do is
to help another human
being know more.”
- Charlie Munger
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Back to School Survival Tips

Editor's Notes

  • #6 author of Building Parent Engagement in Schools
  • #19 Activity: Write down items you’d include in a survival kit. Compare with a partner.
  • #20 Activity: Write down items you’d include in a survival kit. Compare with a partner.