I love going into other classrooms and seeing what other teachers are doing. I also ask other teachers what they are doing in their classrooms. My motto is "Beg, Borrow and Steal; why recreate the wheel?"
Here's a smattering of items and ideas I have borrowed from other teachers:
- desk arrangements - how best to group for which lesson/activity you're doing
- wall organization - how to get the most out of the posters you've spent hard earned cash for
- lesson plans - from actual lessons to organization of those lessons
- how to turn in papers - student focused instead of teacher focused
- wiki ideas
- classroom management tools
- sub plans - how to organize, what information to include
- grading ideas - what gets graded, what doesn't get graded, how to provide good and meaningful feedback
- testing and assessment ideas
- organizing my own desk
Learning from others is such an important step in teaching - why not continually improve in everything?
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