Fall Schedule
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​August

• Get in your classroom! Meet staff: custodial, office, kitchen, and staff
• Setting up your classroom
  • Decide where supplies will be kept, choose a layout for your classroom, see “How to Handle Situations”
• Beginning of the year testing
  • Find your district’s testing schedule!
• “First 6 Weeks” teaching procedures
  • The first six weeks are packed with new faces, classroom expectations, and procedures that need to be taught over and over, fire drills, lock downs, procedures for lining up, hallway behavior
  • Here’s a book that might help!                                                             
• Get to know your students as people, see “How to Handle Situations”
• Be aware of the athletic schedules: games, practices, and early dismissals
• Learn student information system for attendance, health alerts, IEP/504 documents, student contact information, seating chart

September

• Get to know your grading system, begin entering grades
• Teach/Reinforce procedures (for example: lockdown, fire drill, etc.)
• Construct your professional goals for the year
• Check in with your Certification Mentor

Winter Schedule

January

• Be prepared to reinforce classroom expectations and deal with behaviors
• Reteach/Review expectations
• Mid-year testing - be aware of the schedule

February

• Wrap up units of study before break, end strong so you can start strong
• Be ready for students to miss extended school time due to family plans
• The week before vacation:  Take into account students with stressful home lives. This could look like withdrawal, sadness, increased acting out, etc.
• Plan for larger unit of study because there is a large chunk of teaching time

March

• LONG month! Be prepared for more behaviors
• State testing - know the schedule and read testing handbook
• Be encouraging! Students feel how you present it. Bring nutritious food for students’ brains!
• Care for you and your students’ mental health.

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October

• Know your holiday procedures for all major holidays
  • Examples: Costumes for Halloween? Parades? Winter holiday gifts and cards? Valentine’s Day cards? Birthday parties and invitations?Treats and food policy?
• When do grades close? What are the expectations for grading? ASK!!
• Protocol for parent/teacher conferences (example: student led, student work, schedule of the conferences)

November

• Thanksgiving week - don’t plan major events (expect disruptions)
• Snow days/Early release/Late start - know the schedules, know the notification system
• Reorient yourself with extra curriculars, for instance, athletic schedules change, clubs and activities may shift

December

• Winter holidays - Take into account students with stressful home lives. This could look like withdrawal, sadness, increased acting out, etc.
• Wrap up units of study before break, end strong so you can start strong

Spring Schedule

April

• More state testing
• Wrap up units of study before vacation, end strong so you can start strong
• The week before vacation:  Take into account students with stressful home lives. This could look like withdrawal, sadness, increased acting out, etc.
• Reteach expectations
• Change in extracurricular schedule, for instance, athletic schedules change, clubs and activities may shift

May

• Check district calendar for end of year assessments (due dates)
• Some schools take more field trips - review procedures and fill out paperwork
• Interrupted schedule - be flexible
• End of year planning

June

• Make sure all paperwork is up to date in files
• Check in with your Certification Mentor
• Promotion/ Graduation/ Awards night
• Clean room
• CELEBRATE the good things and reflect and let go of the other stuff
• Be thinking about next year