Teacher

It's summer vacation and I'm already thinking about the next school year.  I thought this was supposed to be my vacation where I don't think about work.  But as a teacher who truly cares about my craft, profession, and most of all my students my mind is already wandering about what this school year will hold.  So here are the items running through my head about how I can streamline some of the things I normally do in my classroom in order to save myself the gift that is so precious in a teacher's day, TIME!
The ideas that are currently running through my head to give me the gift of TIME:

• Pre-written generic emails to parents
• Unprepared for class
• No Homework
• Behavior issues
• Low grades
• Daily Check-off List for after school
• Take time and enter all 150ish parents emails into my school address book and sort them (by subject, class period, etc.) for easier mass emails (This will be time consuming the first week/weekend of school, but I think the pay off for the school year will be huge)

So as of this moment my word documents are open and I am sitting here watching TV doing school work.  Yes it is by choice but again the gift of TIME is probably not going to be there once this school year starts.

So now how does this connect to Mom~Teacher~Saver

• Mom - Completing these projects will hopefully, keeping my fingers crossed, give me more time to spend with my son at home in the evenings so that I don't have to work as late on a daily basis and I can also take care of myself by working out in the afternoons
• Teacher - I can use this definitely this school year and hopefully in the years to come.  I won't be using up as much time thinking/retyping these kind of emails to parents on a daily basis.
• Saver - Didn't I say this would be a TIME saver!