Try These 7 Ways to Make Your Teaching Life Easier with Post-Its
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Create a Seating Chart
Create a flexible seating chart using post-its. You can easily move your students around in class and on paper to change your classroom dynamics. Include essential info about each student on the notes.
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Allergy Awareness
In your classroom snack area or lunch tables, post any allergies students have on a sticky notes. Use red post-its for severe allergies, and include emergency numbers on the stickies for easy access.
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Daily Observations
Make the personal comment section of report cards easy by jotting down any observations about student behavior on a post-it each day. At the end of the day, stick the note on a designated comments page in your grade book and be stress free when it is time to complete report cards!
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Eliminate Confusion
Invite students to come up and write any questions they have about what you reviewed in class on post-its and stick them in a designated area on your board. Since the notes are anonymous, your students wont be too embarrassed to ask, and you will know what you need to review with the class.
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Text Book Notes
Do you find your students making notes in books you will use with future students? Give each student a pack of 1 x 1m post-its to use for notes in the book! Simply peel them off before giving the book to your next student.
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Classroom Calendar
Need a calendar large enough for all of your students to see? Make your own classroom calendar using post-its on a wall or bulletin board! You can change the paper color each month or simply shift dates to the correct position when a new month rolls around.
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Cooperative Learning
Create a cooperative learning environment in your classroom by posting a classified section in your room. When a student needs help with anything (e.g. I need help finishing my family tree.) he writes his need on a post-it and includes his name at the bottom. Then, a student who has been successful at that task takes the post-it and seeks out the student who wrote it. When the task is complete, students can throw away the note.
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