talesofan8thgradeteacher:

As the school year approaches for me, I always start to get nervous. I work very hard and always try to do my best, but I still worry about a multitude of things.

• Am I prepared? Am I ready to meet every day and challenge head on?
• Am I growing as an educator? Can I be doing more to develop as a…

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teachingliteracy:

• A twist on heart mapping for students.
• Banish back to school jitters by sending postcards to your students.
• Binders: I called my students’ binders “GEAR Binders.”  The original name for these organization tools are “MOOSE Binders.”  Regardless of the name,home-to-school binders are a great way to keep your students organized.
• Celebrity Writer Profiles are a fun way to showcase all of your students for the writers they are now and the writers they hope to be by the end of the school year.
• Creating empty bulletin boards to house student work.
• Helping students learn about their role (and yours) in a writing conference.
• Keep track of who you confer with by using a visual conference tracker.
• Literacy bags can help students transport their books, reading logs, and writer’s notebooks neatly between home and school.
• Map your teaching heart.
• Memory boxes help students gather things that are important, which can help them with their writing.
• Organizing your conferring notebook.
• Personalize your plan book.  (Templates can be found by clicking here.)
• Record-keeping made easy.
• Routines to teach so things run smoothly.
• Seamless classroom transitions can happen with the help of a rain stick.
• Setting writing teacher goals.
• Stuff you can place on the front and back covers of your students’ writer’s notebooks.
• Take time to help a new teacher by showing him/her the ropes.
• The power of the author’s chair.  (Read more about sharing by clicking here.)
• Thinking through units of study you’ll teach this year.
• Use a literacy profile to get to know your students as readers and writers.
• Working with colleagues.
• Writing centers that work for you and your students.
• Writing territories are powerful tools for helping students find things to write about.

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