There are probably a billion different ways to create long-range plans. I have found them to be indispensable when it comes to lesson planning. It takes some time to sit down and plan things out, but it's well worth it in the long run. Here's how I make mine. 👇 ...

Do you have the next 6 spring break and summer break vacation spots planned yet? Better get on it! Lucky for you, I'm here to help you out with travel ideas. This is why we're friends, obviously. You're welcome. ...

If you have finished the curriculum and there are still a couple days of school left - congrats! You made it through everything! But now what? ...

I love sticky notes. I make lists of things I n eed to do on them all the time. (Doe s it even count as completing a task if you don't get to cross it off a list?) ...

A classroom full of students with too much free time is the stuff nightmares are made of. If you're done with all the work you had planned for today and there's still more than 5 seconds until the bell rings, then you can whip up this game out of thin air and pretend it was your plan all along. ...

I don't like data. Do I look like a math teacher???!!! My first year of teaching my admin and mentor teacher tried to tell me I had to have an exit ticket every day and at the end of every period I had to examine the data to see how many kids got the lesson, how many were shaky, and how many were lost.  ...

If you've got 10 minutes left of class time and you need another activity to fill time until the bell rings - charades could be what you're looking for. It takes almost zero prep beforehand , so you can easily make it look like you had this plan ned the whole tim e, and definitely intended to end the lesson with charades. ...