As teachers, we are always chasing our tails! In the ideal world yes maybe we will get the work done in that free period, but teachers who are not teaching for even 30 min of the day will be found by a wandering colleague or student. So as a little time saver you can find some handy templates below!
This is a very handy resource for differentiated team work, if you have your classroom set up in tables of four, and the tables labelled A, B, C and D. This works very well giving students responsibilities of whatever task you may set them during the lesson. It eliminates the students who will try to go under the radar and not participate by setting a task for ALL students.
As teachers marking is so important, but sometimes marking policies are done to keep admin happy instead of done in a way that actually helps the students. After a discussion with my Head of Secondary, I was inspired to revamp my marking policy so that it was meaningful and was in line with the student's needs; so that they could see the value in marking. This policy means that the class teacher will deep mark 1 piece of work on a 4-week rotation. The beauty of this policy is that marking is done EVERY week, but the responsibility of the marking is shared within the whole class. Week 1 may be verbal feedback, week 2 may be self-marking, week 3 may be peer marking and week 4 is deep marking with teacher feedback! My experience of using this system is a happier teacher with less burnout!
this is a handy template and time saver for all teachers, you write one piece of collated feedback for the class, photocopy it for all of the students to stick into their copybook, then give them time to read through the feedback and look at other peoples work to help them improve their own work. (works really well for KS3)
Individual Education Plan for each of your students to help you better plan your lessons around their needs.
This is a handy little template to use when you are showing your students a video clip in a lesson, it will ensure that they are kept on task and stay focused instead of daydreaming and learning nothing from the task!