The Secret to a Successful School Year
A successful school year starts out with a pacing calendar or map. A pacing calendar will help you prepare for the year ahead, it will provide you with a road map for your instruction.
What do you want and need to cover?
A pacing calendar will allow you to be sure that you have covered all the key concepts and standards over the course of a year.
* Social Development Skills
* Language and Literacy Skills
* Math Concepts
* Learning Themes
It will also help you integrate subject areas across your curriculum.
* Social Development Skills
* Language and Literacy Skills
* Math Concepts
* Learning Themes
It will also help you integrate subject areas across your curriculum.
Start by planning your monthly themes of study.
I did this by using the What's Planned sheets found here. I then printed my theme of studies post it note sheet and started planning. (note I printed the theme of studies twice one for What's Planned and one for my pacing calendars.)
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Print sheet onto card stock if you have not already done this. This is what you will be using to place your post it notes on before printing each templates.
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Here is how you can create your own pacing calendar or map.
I taped my calendars together so that I was working with one sheet for each month. I also chose to use a different color post it for each subject.
Post it Note Curriculum Templetes
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Editable template so that you can design your pacing calendar to meet your needs and that of your school district.
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As I worked through the process I decided to print some of my sheets twice. I did this so that I could continue to go over some key concepts for my students to have a rich and deep development of those concepts.
I place my pacing calendars in my lesson plan binder at the beginning of each month.
Here is to having a stress free and well planned school year.