On 5/17/08, MOBOY wrote:
> I am a first year teacher and have landed a wonderful job
> teaching 2nd grade. I was wondering what I can do to
> prepare for fall over the summer? I would love to hear
> from all points of views. Thank you for your time.
1) Become super-familiar with your curriculum, books, etc.
Figure out what skills you need to emphasize in December to
help the kids be successful when they need to apply that skill
in March. (Or however your curriculum works) My first two
teaching jobs, I was hired very last-minute and I never had
time to do that and I spent a lot of time kicking myself for
not teaching some things well enough and for over-teaching
other things.
1a) If second grade is a testing grade in your state, then
prepare for that. Figure out what percentage of time you need
to spend on each standard or goal or whatever you call it,
what resources you have available, how to work in test-prep to
your curriculum, etc.
2) Make a paperwork organizing system according to how you
know you work, like file folders for each unit or whatever.
You'll be way to busy the first few months to do it and if you
don't have a place to put your copies or whatever, you'll have
three feet of papers to file over christmas break.
3) Figure out what you plan to do for discipline.
4) Get your room in order
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