50 Tips from Teachers to Start the School Year
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- 30 Aug 2022
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The season is upon us. Are we ready for it? Looking for some tips to start the school year? I am speaking of a brand new school year! We all know the feelings…butterflies in our stomach, nerves, excitement, happiness, upset summer is over. You know what? That is OKAY! It is okay to feel all of those things because many Teaching Trailblazers are feeling the same thing. No matter the feelings… we have 50 Tips from Teachers to Start the School Year!
Have you been in your classroom yet? Perhaps you even started setting up the room and deciding what will be going up on those classroom walls. If not, don’t worry. Maybe you already were in over the summer without a line at the copy machine to make copies of student morning work and September packets?! If not, don’t worry. Gosh, maybe you even have items organized already and decided on procedures for assessments and progress monitoring. If not, don’t worry.
I say don’t worry because I asked our Teaching Trailblazer community for some tips to start the new school year! They didn’t disappoint! Thank you in advance to our Trailblazers from our Facebook groups: Fearless Kindergarten Teachers, Fearless First Grade Teachers, and Fearless Second Grade Teachers. Together, we came up with 50 tips to start the school year! Whether you are ready or not, these tips from teachers for teachers will get our minds in the game and prepare us for what is to come this school year!
Tips to Start the School Year
Tip 1. “Lean on your mentors!”
2. “Realize that you can’t do it all. Give it your all while you are there and go home and enjoy your family.” – Jennifer L.
3. “I always make a point to call the parents within the first two or three weeks of school with something positive about their child. That way if I ever have to call about something not so great, we’ve already started off the relationship on a high note, and it makes it easier to work together for the rest of the year.” – Taryn I.
4. “Incorporate centers into your daily routines in both areas of Math and ELA”
5. “Don’t take anything personally.” – Inez B.
6. “Take the gratitude challenge – every morning, you have to think of 3 things you’re grateful for from the day before, but you can never repeat!! It also builds your capacity for gratitude because you’ll start to find yourself thinking “oh, I can add that to my gratitude list tomorrow!” – Kelsey B.
7. “Avoid the energy suckers.” – Valerie S.
8. “That tough kid??? Sometimes they become your biggest reward. Remember, you have tons of behavioral strategies at your disposal to do prior to the behavior, during the behavior, and after a behavior occurs!”. Read More...
