Your Headspace is Important:
Decide how many hours you will dedicate to planning and commit to this schedule. Plan during a time of day when your brain feels most awake and creative; for many this falls between 9-11:30 am. Also, don't be afraid to make it fun! Listen to some music that will not distract-preferably non-lyrical music -and prepare your favorite morning beverage.
Organize Yourself for Success:
You have probably shuffled around some lesson plans, documents, etc. throughout the school year. From these collections, identify what was most useful from this past school year and what you would simply like to keep. The useful items should get categorized for easy access, the others should be archived (you never know when you may want to look back at these). Use applications like google drive to help you organize your folders by number or letter.
Reflect on Your Best Lessons:
Within some of the best lessons you have saved for the upcoming year, look over these to see if there are small improvements you want to make. Easy, immediate changes include: spell check, grammatical errors, or any mistakes can be fixed in one or two simple steps. If there are major structural changes you want to make, use a comment option to leave your great ideas to be expanded upon at a later time.
Create Your Focus:
Think about what will inspire you this upcoming school year and write down one or two major goals you want to achieve such as building more student-centered curriculum or facilitating even better discussions in the classroom. Make a reasonable list of objectives that you need to accomplish in order to achieve these goals. Break these objectives into short-term and long-term goals to better prioritize your planning and time availability.
Prepare Your First Two Weeks:
Look at your back-to-school and classroom community lessons for welcoming students back into the classroom. Reviewing these lessons will help you solidify the first impression you want to give this year. If you have already thought about your major goals for the upcoming school year, you can start to build this foundation in these class activities. Completing at least your first two weeks of lesson plans will also ensure that you can start the year already feeling prepared.
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