THREAD- You might be 1 week into your 8 week term, or starting your 7 week term at the end of your 1 or 2 week half term. However, the run up 2 Christmas is a truly amazing time, however, very stressful. The following blog & toolkit posts will hopefully help you on your journey!
Here’s a blog post about how to write your to do lists. Giving a few examples and the brief science behind them! https://newtothepost.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/to-do-lists/ (Eisenhower Matrix.)
Here’s my blog about how to break and create a new habit. We will all have items we are working on- this should help you realise how to put that in place! https://newtothepost.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/habits-why-we-need-change-them/
No doubt you will be working with students in your classes/school who have dyslexia or ADHD, here are my resources to help you help them more efficiently.
Dyslexia - https://www.trythisteaching.com/2019/10/dyslexiaawarenessweek/
Dyslexia - https://www.trythisteaching.com/2019/10/dyslexiaawarenessweek/
And here is the resource for ADHD https://newtothepost.wordpress.com/2019/07/24/adhd-and-you/ I will be adding some “movement” based activities that do not distract from learning too!
Why not trial using a standardised PowerPoint? https://www.trythisteaching.com/2019/07/whats-the-title/ What common tasks and graphical representations could you use! Find a list of useful websites here too!
Here is my toolkit post on email management tips and email hacks. It will help you! https://www.trythisteaching.com/2019/06/email-hacks/
If you are going to updating or changing your displays this half term then pls consider the following- https://newtothepost.wordpress.com/2019/06/03/writings-on-the-wall/
Also this blog post about the routines for learning to help enable a calm, controlled classroom can be found here- https://newtothepost.wordpress.com/2018/11/17/how-to-have-a-calm-controlled-effective-classroom-environment/amp/#click=https://t.co/N0WNaGtw9v
And here are some threads I have tweeted out that have been useful to others I believe.
An activity to try? https://twitter.com/ASTsupportAAli/status/1186395654547005441?s=20
An activity to try? https://twitter.com/ASTsupportAAli/status/1186395654547005441?s=20
Another thread this one on time saving tips- https://twitter.com/ASTsupportAAli/status/1165695739110068227?s=20
Another on inclusive teaching. https://twitter.com/ASTsupportAAli/status/1063150671841673216?s=20
How about this idea? https://twitter.com/ASTsupportAAli/status/1165696134318215168?s=20