Some more tips to help you start your school year right!
- Visit your classroom early to set up furniture, bulletin boards, etc.
- Read district and building handbooks
- Read curriculum guide/outcomes
- Find out the first day schedule and procedures
- Meet key staff; greet newcomers: principal, secretary, custodian
- Know who your KNEA building representative and officers are
- Create lesson plans for the first week
- Create preliminary seating charts if practical
- Consider name tags for each desk (elementary)
- Find out procedures for obtaining textbooks and other instructional materials/resources
- Find out what (new) resources are available: school professional library,
district resources, KNEA, educational service centers, etc.
- Find out what technological resources are available and how you'll be expected
to use them
- Determine your beginning class routine: roll call, absent, tardy, etc.
- Room expectations: designated place for homework, supplies, out-of-seat
policies, etc.
- Set up independent work standards
- Decide how to communicate about expectations to parents and/or students
- Establish instructional activities and routines
- Ending class routines: turning in assignments, clearing desks
- Other procedures: fire drills, tornado drills, etc.
- Work requirements and standards: heading papers, incomplete work, due dates
- Communicating assignments (written, oral)
- Student work: obtaining assignments when absent, due dates, late work
- Homework: schedule and expectations
- Grading procedures: extra credit options
- Activities for students who have finished their work
- Role of other adults in the room (paras, parents, etc.)
These and other great tips can be found in the KNEA New Teacher Resource Guide.
To get one, contact your UniServ Office!
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