I recently applied for a first grade position in a neighboring district. The employment in that district is highly competitive. I fortunately landed an interview at a school there and knew I needed something to take with me to showcase my talents and passion for teaching. I had read that teaching portfolios had helped many others in this situation. I have always kept a portfolio each year to meet our state's professionalism rubric, but I needed something a little more tailored to the needs of an interview. I decided to create my own that highlighted some important areas of teaching and that would serve as evidence to questions asked during the interview. Since I was going after a primary grade teaching position, I wanted the colors to be bright and colorful. I think it's also important to put your contact information on the cover, as well as your picture. They might want to keep your portfolio to look over while making their decision. Your picture will help remind them of you and your interview. I also wanted to take them on a tour of my classroom. They should be able to envision me in their building. Since I am a blogger, I have lots of photos of my classroom. I included a blog post after this page in the portfolio that took them through my learning space. You could even add a layout of your classroom from a website that allows you to create those. That would show them that you value classroom layout and like to plan ahead. Classroom management is an area they will definitely want to know about. What is your system? How do you ensure a smoothly run classroom? How do promote positive behavior and desired expectations in your classroom? I included information along with photos of these areas. Not only did I incorporate my latest strategies, I also added strategies of the past that I had tried with my students. Lesson plans should also be included. I have taught kindergarten and second grade, so I included examples of both. If you do visual plans, definitely incorporate those! They are attention grabbers and look great in your portfolio. I included a copy of my current classroom schedule. I wanted them to see that consistency and routine were vital to my learning environment. One section in my notebook was all about lesson plans and creative activities I had incorporated in my classroom. I divided that section up into some effective best practices. In each section, I included the strategy, brain research to support the practice, and photos of them being incorporated into my classroom. I also included some units I had created along with photos of students engaged in activities from those units. Another section in the portfolio highlighted assessment and data. Education is so data-driven these days that I knew I had to incorporate this. I listed all of the assessments I had experience with, included data from assessments I had administered (do not include student names), and showed how I used the data to drive my instruction. You may be asked about parent communication in your interview. In this section, I included newsletters and various other ways I communicated with parents and got them involved in their child's education. I also took the time to break down what my reading and math blocks looked like. I made sure to mention the five components of reading, curriculum I had experience using, and student work samples. I made sure to highlight how each of these areas drove student success. Finally, I had sections for professional development and important documents. You should include any professional development you have attended, as well as any you have led. Be sure to also include documents such as a copy of your teacher license, praxis scores, and a college transcript. There are many more components to my portfolio that you will have access to if you purchase this Editable Teacher Portfolio. I am confident it really helped me receive the first grade position. It provided easy evidence for me to refer to during the interview. The file is a PowerPoint, but you could also save it as a PDF when completed to send digitally to principals. Since it is editable, you can add or take away any pieces to fit your needs. It will definitely make you stand out in your teacher interview! I hope this portfolio is beneficial to you and lands you that perfect job! Happy teaching and best wishes!
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'The 5 Minute Marking Plan' cannot do your marking for you (sadly) it will help you focus on the job in hand and help ensure you maximise your students’ learning and your own.
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Everyone loves Boggle! Here is a template that you can use again and again – just change the letters. There are two versions, one in color for the overhead and one in grayscale for individual use. Perfect for centers, bell work, or anytime you have a few spare minutes. Download Boggle Template Rachel Lynette You ... Read More about Boggle Template for End of the Year Fun
Whew! Has this been a crazy weekend! On Friday night it was super cold and our heating system ended up going out, so we have been dealing with that all weekend. Also we decorated for Christmas! This is our last week before the kids are on break, and then we have two teacher work days, so […]
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Keep all of your lesson plans for the whole school year in one streamlined easy-to-access place with a Google Sheets Lesson Plan Template!
If you want to make sure everything is in order and that your absence won't result in chaos, here are some helpful subs plans!
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In simple form, inquiry-based learning is more of a student-directed way of learning rather than teacher-directed. In some cases, teachers may set the general framework for learning, but for the most part, the learning is based on the students questions, ideas and passions. But how do you provoke those questions in the first place? Inquiry-based
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Free Behavior Report form for your students to fill out. Great way to improve student behavior with this classroom management tool.
I am officially starting my substitute teaching job next week! Super nervous and excited! I can't wait to get back into the district that I student taught. I have been printing out some emergency plans to be extra prepared. Here is the sub report that I made this morning. I hope you may get some use out of it, too! Click here to download the pdf
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1-2-3 Come Do Some Viola Swamp and Miss Nelson Activities With Me! “The kids in Room 207 were misbehaving again. Spitballs stuck to the ceiling. Paper planes whizzed through the air. They were the worst-behaved class in the whole school.” Thus begins the story of Miss Nelson is Missing, one of my all-time favorite back-to-school books. This cute classic was first published in 1977, but is still relevant today, as a lighthearted reminder of how important it is to show our appreciation of others. When I read the story to my students, I wore a reversible "cape". (A lovely pastel floral print was on one side, when I became the sweet Miss Nelson. When I "transformed" into the terrible Miss Viola Swamp. ("...the meanest substitute teacher in the whole world!") I easily flipped it to the solid black, ugly side. I've also donned a plastic witch nose, along with a few long black fingernails for my left hand, while pretending to be Viola. She is the crazy substitute teacher in three children's books by Harry Allard (illustrated by James Marshall). The books are entitled Miss Nelson is Missing!, Miss Nelson is Back, and Miss Nelson Has a Field Day. The latter is by far my personal favorite. At the start of the story, Miss Nelson’s students are very disrespectful and naughty. They constantly take advantage of her good- natured personality, and haven’t a clue of what a wonderful and sweet teacher they really have, ’til she doesn’t show up one day and is replaced by the horendous substitute, Miss Viola Swamp. Days pass and FINALLY, to the utter joy of her students, Miss Nelson returns to class with a "little secret" as to her disappearence. By this time, the children have become wonderful and very appreciative students. I highly recommend this great read aloud, and always kept a copy in my sub folder. Because the book is so popular, I thought teachers would enjoy some activities to go with it. You can do some of them with your students and/or tuck others into your sub folder, to be plugged in as emergency lessons. The Miss Nelson is Missing packet, includes a variety of writing, language arts and reading activites. Plus some adorable "craftivities" to review even more standards. Here are a few of the FREEBIES. There are 76 word cards, plus a blank set to program with your own. Great for vocabulary building. You can also use these as an opportunity to teach synonyms, antonyms, and adjectives, while reinforcing their importance in writing. One way to use the cards is as an assessment game. Students make a Popsicle stick puppet with Miss Nelson on one side and Viola Swamp on the other. I enjoyed sketching these memorable characters, particularly Viola. Hold up a word card and read it. Children decide which character they think that word describes and flip their Popsicle to the appropriate face. For added pizzazz, I glued the facial circles to pink and green construction paper and then glued them back-to-back. The teacher then shows the correct answer and asks students if they know what the word means. If not (s)he defines it. Because Miss Nelson and Miss Swamp are certainly "opposites" you can have a teachable moment, and ask students if Viola's qualities are antonyms for Miss Nelson's. I've also included several other adjective activities as well, including a sort of graphic organizer, where they jot down words that describe their teacher, Miss Nelson, and Viola Swamp. The packet has 7 writing activities, including 2 class-made books. One book is entitled The Case Of The Missing Students. Children write about what happened to their entire class when their teacher came to school one day, but no one else did! The other is entitled Our Teacher Is Missing. As with the original story, students try and figure out what happened to their teacher, and write about one of their conclusions. Other writing prompts have students explaining why they wouldn't want Miss Swamp to be their teacher, what qualities they feel a really good teacher pocesses, and 5 things they think their teacher might be doing if (s)he disappeared. For good measure I threw in 2 "Is, Can, Was" worksheets for both Viola and Miss Nelson. Students will undoubtedly compare Miss Nelson and Viola to their own teacher. To review this concept, have students choose one of 3 Venn diagrams. Students compare and contrast the characters to their own teacher, as well as the book to a similar story. On the craftier side, there are 2 WANTED posters (for male as well as female teachers), for students to fill in, as well as 4 MISSING person posters. I'm sure what your students fill in about you, will be quite amusing. My personal favorite activity in the packet is Swamp's Stocking Statements. It's a cute way to review concepts of print. Completed projects make a wonderful back-to-school bulletin board or hallway display. To round things out, I included a page of discussion questions, a synopsis of the story and 2 "retell the story" bookmarks. Finally, after you read Miss Nelson is Missing to your students, you may want them to see an absolutely "awwww-dorable" 13-minute youtube video. Mr. Arturo Avina's kindergarten class, from LAUSD's Olympic Primary Center, did a tremendous job acting out their adaptation of “Miss Nelson is Missing”. He’s done an outstanding job recording it, as well as incorporating music from some popular songs. What a fabulous learning experience for these students. They are certainly fortunate to have such a creative teacher. I hope you and yours enjoy it as much as I did. My students, no matter what grade I taught, LOVED doing reader’s theater; I highly recommend trying it. Click on the link to view/download the Miss Nelson Is Missing packet. This packet will be FREE for an entire year. After which time it will be up-dated & included in my 203-page jumbo Miss Nelson is Missing Literacy & Math packet in my TpT shop. Click on the link to pop on over. It is one of my most useful & all-time favorite packets. I'm confident that your kiddos will LOVE these activities! Oh, and if you'd like a poster that's appropriate, click on the link. It's not in this packet, but would be a cute writing prompt or discussion: "What do you think this poster means?" and... "How does it fit in with the story Miss Nelson is Missing?" Thanks for visiting today. By all means PIN away. We've just added the automatic "PIN" feature to all of our pix. Simply hover over them. "If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you." -Dr. Seuss
Yay! Let’s play Bingo! This Contractions Bingo makes teaching/learning/ reviewing contractions FUN! You can use this Bingo as a whole-class activity or in small groups as a literacy center in grades 1-3 (can be used as a review of contractions in 4th-6th)! Included in this File: - Suggested Use - Tips for playing this Bingo as well as storing it. - Contraction Cheat Sheet - A sheet including the 34 contractions in this game. This is a great Writer's Workshop Folder tool,too! -24 different Contractions Bingo cards –You can photocopy a second set if you want to use this as a whole-class activity. -34 contraction calling cards – just cut the cards apart and use them to call out the contractions in two words. Students then cover up the matching contraction on their Bingo board. -A contraction calling card list – You can call out contractions for students to cover from this list if you do not want to use the calling cards. Just highlight, circle, or cross off the contraction once it’s been called out. -One blank Contractions Bingo template – This is great if you want students to fill in their board with the contractions broken apart. Then, the teacher or caller can call the contraction out for students to cover. You can see my other Grammar Bingo sets in my store: Synonym Bingo Level 1 Synonym Bingo Level 2 Synonym Bingo Level 3 Synonym Bingo Bundle Preposition Bingo Adjective Bingo Level 1 Adjective Bingo Level 2 Adjective Bingo Level 3 Thanks so much for your purchase! Erin Lane Contractions Bingo by Erin Lane is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
These free sub plans can help middle school teachers with their lesson planning if they will be absent from the classroom.
I’ve posted before about my teacher binder. As an organizationally-challenged person, I had to find that one thing that would hold me together as a teacher… and my binder is it. I love this thing. It’s within an arm’s reach at any given moment (home or school) and keeps me sane. And honestly? Creating it was simple. Unfortunately, my teacher binder had seen better days, so it was time to perform a little overhaul. While I’m working on my own, I thought I’d share 5 steps to creating your own teaching binder! 1. Plan first. For me, the easiest way to do this was to gather all the papers I thought I wanted in my binder, and split them into piles. This will help you know how many dividers and what size of binder to buy. Don’t forget that you can use the space in front of and behind the dividers! 2. Get the supplies. Pick a binder you LOVE (for me, color is huge) and splurge for the heavy duty one. Believe me- you’ll be using this thing a lot. I also picked dividers that had pockets and were easy to write on (and erase, if I change my mind later). A friend gave me Vera Bradley binder clips, and I use this one to pin my lesson plans to the cover so that the 2-page spread opens instantly when I open the binder. This binder clip also adds just enough “cute” to make me smile whenever I look at my binder! It sounds silly (seriously who has designer binder clips) but I probably see it 20 times each day. Worth it. 3. Think about the covers. What are the things you constantly need to reference? For me, a cute cover with my name on it would be okay- but really, I need my class list, my current Post-It list, and the weekly newsletter (with spelling & vocab. words, academic focuses, etc.). Normally, this would have a class list, which I didn’t show for obvious reasons, and there’s usually a Post-It list or two. Still… I like how clean and neat my binder looks on my desk! (Plus, the color stands out if it does find its way into a pile.) 4. Think about order. What papers do you need access to the most often? My lesson plan pages go in the front because I reference them throughout every day, and my calendar goes next. (I love Google Calendar, but a written one works best for me. I printed this one for free from The Twinery Blog.) I put any lists for quick reference (computer logins, school schedules, curriculum maps, policies, etc.) in the reference tab. My Student Info tab holds my data (so useful when I plan my small groups at home!), but also copies of anything like IEP’s, ILP’s, RTI plans, and documentation. The back includes things I might need to look up once a week while planning, but not daily, like my standards lists and my archive of planning pages/ meeting notes. Once you’ve decided, write on the dividers. (I used a skinny Sharpie- on most surfaces, nail polish remover will take it right off if I ever change my mind!) 4. Hole punch everything and try it out! This is the perfect time of year to give this baby a trial run and give you plenty of time to tweak it for next year! I found out that having a “meeting notes” section was just not enough for me, so I added some extra subsections. You’ll find what works for you! I plan my teacher binder as something that I will take to every meeting, take home every night, and use constantly throughout my day. It means that whether I’m at home, in my classroom, or somewhere in the school, I have everything I need to stay organized and up-to-date! There are plenty of other guides out there to making a teacher binder, but it’s my hope that this can help you make the one that’s right for you. Yes, it takes a bit of time… but I put mine together in about an hour (minus shopping) and it has saved me so much more than that!
This is an oral activity where your students discuss which passengers deserve a place in the lifeboat of a ship sinking in the Pacific. - ESL worksheets
Educational printables encourage thinking & writing in a fun way. These can become the first step in writing longer essays, poems or stories.
Basically any excuse for my kids to take pen to paper and I'm there.These free comic book templates printables are a fun way to keep your kids writing!
All About Me activity is a fun practice that brings lots of benefits more than just personal favorites. Various activities can be combined with the theme and best to apply for preschoolers or kindergarteners.
FREE daily math warm-ups for second grade are the perfect way to start the morning with your students. Great 2nd grade math review.
What to think about before creating: Skills/Standards/Scope you’d like to cover, Themes, etc.
An amazing resource for teachers! With so much information available online, how do you show your students the best? Find the ones that you, as an expert in your subject, believe are worth your students' time. Copy links to videos (YouTube, for example), websites, even your own documents/presentations. (On Google Drive, just make sure that the files you want students to see are shareable). Copy links and paste them into the template. Download the document as a PDF (so the links are clickable) and then share the document with students (via your Learning Management System, your website, etc.) You MUST replace the blurred Bitmojis with your own or another graphic. During the pandemic, when schools were closed, all I (as a teacher) could do was post work for my students to do. I wanted them to be as visually interesting as possible, not just a list of links on a plain page. So I began creating Hyperdocs. I still use them to this day, even with the return to normal schooling. In my district, we rarely have a substitute for each class. Students are often sent to a large area (cafeteria, gym, library) and are only watched over, not instructed. On the days when I have to be out, I post a HyperDoc to keep them on topic. And even if they do have a sub, the sub usually doesn't know my subjects (French and Spanish) or doesn't have the technology to show a video. So I add a HyperDoc to my LMS and students can continue learning. And on days when students are working on projects while others have already finished, a HyperDoc keeps my students busy learning.
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Traditionally, curriculum maps are developed based on one, golden goal: meeting standards. In my experience and research, standards are not only different in different parts of the world, but oftentimes are limiting or inaccurate representations of the big picture of what students need to learn in a
