Teacher's Top 10 Tips for Getting Organized

In last week's most-clicked SmartBrief story*, a teacher shares her top 10 strategies for staying organized in the classroom.

Suggestions include establishing routines for turning in work and collecting missed assignments and range from low-tech (seating charts, writing what students need for class on a board outside of your room) to higher-tech (using e-mail to communicate with parents, using an online grading system).

The popularity of this article leads us to believe there are many of you out there hungry for new ways to bring order to your classroom. Feel free to share your tips in the comments section.

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Comments

[Ian H.]

While the article looks interesting, I have to say that the best thing about this post is seeing a LOLcat on ASCD. Awesome!

[John Norton]

Thanks for sharing a link to the Teacher Leaders Network article at Teacher Magazine, authored by Michigan middle grades teacher Cossondra George. It's one of a series of "Teaching Secrets" pieces contributed by members of the TLN Forum in their effort to help young and less experienced colleagues with teaching fundamentals. There's an archive of TLN articles at the Teacher Magazine website -- just click on any TLN logo you see. All the "Teaching Secrets" pieces begin with that tag.