Sometimes our kids just have all of the fun. They get these great schedules and prompts and visuals and sometimes I sit here and think – hey! I could use some of those awesome systems in my life too. As special ed teachers our to-do lists are never ending and our minds tend to run a million miles a minute. We could use some help too! I made some pretty helpful visuals for myself this year that have been making my life MUCH easier.
Monday To Do List
I have a bunch of components of my classroom that need to be redone or switched out each week. Some of the things are minor but necessary. This list is essential for me because it avoids me crazily trying to do these things real quick while my kids are bouncing around my classroom Monday morning and my coffee has quite kicked in yet. This is a critical behavior management tool as well! When you leave the station or students you are working with to run over and real quick switch out a few tasks – what are those kids doing? Likely something they shouldn’t be. If you are prepared for the week, you won’t have to be leaving any station unmanned.
Friday To Do List
My Friday To Do List is double duty for myself and for my students. I really wanted to set up some great and solid routines before I left on maternity leave. Making sure my get their vocab quiz each week and get points for their independent work is so important. If nobody is checking all that independent work my kiddos are doing during the week and there is no positive reinforcement attached (ie. getting points for good work) you better believe that after a few weeks that work just starts slipping slowly into the hole of horribly and halfway done work.
I recommend setting up systems like this for yourself! Our students can’t have all the fun 😉
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Great idea, Sasha, thanks. My lists are a mess and all over the place (you should see my desk! GASP!). I like how you show it hanging in plain view. One of my problems is that my lists get covered up and I forget about them. Thanks for sharing.
Definitely been meaning to make a weekly and monthly checklist for myself with this sort of thing. Thanks for sharing!