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The Warm Fuzzies
Print these off and keep them handy!
'Thankyou' and 'Just a quick note to say...' make all the difference to relationships between you and your colleagues and you and your students.
Good Report
Students fall all over themselves for these. Even the seniors laugh but love 'em! (An edit is in the pipeline to make them quicker to complete.)
Never miss a birthday!
Print off loads at the beginning of the year - keep 'em handy! Over-achievers might like to pre-write and sort into birthday order. Yikes!
Essay Checklists
Great for students to sit beside them as they work. Great for students like I was who just don't 'get' essays.
Teaching Tools
See also... English subject resources
'That' speech!
A close reading activity about Greta Thunberg's speech to the UN Climate Action Summit.
The Daily Dash!
A fab lesson starter. Get students to write as much as they can for 3 minutes about a crazy topic you've written on the board (eg pink elephants) or whatever (!) Students count their words and graph. If you're keen, get them to divide their score by the number of mistakes! Helps alleviate writing paralysis!
Pillage and Plunder Posters
Students work on their own, then, after a certain time can wander around the classroom to gather more ideas from others. Think of it as 'good' cheating meets collaboration. Students love it! PDF posters - 4 designs to choose from.
Thug Notes
Takes you to a Wikipedia page. Scroll down to get the list.
Planning
Term Planner for Students
Students fill in all assessment dates for all subjects. Gives them an 'at-a-glance one-pager to keep track of it all!
Year Planner for Your Class
4 terms with dates already included. Simply type in your plan for the year.
Plan to Use Digital Literacy to Enhance Learning
Several different planning ideas here. Includes examples.
Alternative Planning Template
Engage seniors (especially year 13 / grade 12!) with some 'multi planning' and a tutorial system.
Read blog for the 'how to'!
Weekly Diary for Students
Students can print or use this Microsoft Word doc digitally. At the bottom of the doc is a link to a Google Doc version if preferred. All bases covered!
Administration
Edited NZ Teaching Council's Quality Practice Template
Includes key graphic and 'In a nutshell' blurb to clarify each standard. I have also added the Secondary Schools' matrix so that everything's in one place. Should be completed collaboratively.
Feeds into Teacher Inquiry.
Editable cover sheets to attach to students' assessments
These include the assessment criteria PLUS any further information from the clarifications and explanatory notes - great help for teachers as they mark! Hyperlinks are included to take you to relevant docs should you need to have an extra look.
See also...
Webstuff You Can Never Find - a page dedicated with proving you with all those NZQA etc etc links you can never find!
Internal Moderstion Record
Are you keeping track of this? Have you got a good system to do so? This one has been tried and tested and works brilliantly!
Oral Assessment Record
When students give you an oral response, you might record it on your phone, but how do you note your grading of it? This form has been designed to tick this box!
For Your Classroom Wall
Quick visual explanations of your classroom digital technologies.
Designed because I was sick of repeating myself (and I love it when one student says to another, "it tells you how to do it up there man" as they point to the wall. Note editable version here so you can change it up for your own systems if needed.
