Keeping daily attendance and make-up work organized

Are your attendance records up to date and organized?  Do you forget to give students their make-up work or have to look for it in a stack of papers?  Well, I have a solution for you.  Get a 3 ring binder.  It can be one and a half inch  or two inches.  A one inch binder is too small too keep for an entire year.  Next, purchase some folders with pockets and labels.  Label them with your class periods.  Then print out several copies of each class’s roster and put it behind the correct label.  For attendance, put the dates across the top of the rosters.  Each day put a T if someone is tardy, an A if someone is absent, and leave blank if the student is present.  For make up work, put the name of the student on the assignment and put in the pocket folder for their class period.  When the student comes to school,  you remember to give it to the student because it is in the same location as the attendance.    This has helped me a great deal.  When students tell me they were absent, I can immediately look in the binder and check.  This has also cut down on students telling me they were not  in class when I gave out an assignment.

Classroom Management

Do You Have Good Classroom Management?

Classroom management has always been the number one
goal as to how your class will go for the year.  Sometimes
new teachers are not quite sure about what to do to get their
classroom under control.  Here is a list of things you can do to
make your classroom better:

1.  Know the name of each student
2.  Use close proximity to students to keep their talking to a minimum.
3.  Make the students who are talkative leaders in the room.  Give
    them a responsibility such as collecting calculators.
4.  Call parents at the beginning of the year with something
     positive.  This way when you call for something negative you
     will already have an established connection.
5.  Have classwork that is challenging.
6.  Always have something for the student to do when he/she finishes
    early.
7.  Address the little issues in class so they do not turn into bigger
    issues.
8.  Reach out to other teachers who have the same group of students
    for suggestions.
9.  Be fair to all students. 
10. Have rules and consequences.  Most importantly, follow them.