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The most important for time
saving is team folders. It seems like a pretty obvious, or
not very elegant or exciting little thing, but they work
incredibly well, in that team folders are placed in the
front of the room before class starts, the students pick up
the folders, they sign in. That's how I keep attendance. I
don't call attendance in class; they sign in every class.
They take out anything I'm returning to them, and put in
anything that's being submitted, so that takes up a whole
lot of overhead out of the class. Occasionally, if there is
content or material that they will use in the class, but I
don't want them to have it in front of them because it would
be distracting, I'll supplement that with envelopes inside
the team folders. . . . The envelopes contain materials that
they're not to access until a certain point in the class.
That also means that if they're submitting homework in the
team folder, I can take the team folder away and have the
homework, so they're not working on the homework in class,
and they can resubmit whatever they're doing in class in the
envelope; so it's like team folders plus supplementary team
folders-the envelopes.
The best management tool is a
detailed agenda for the entire semester, class by class, if
you give [it to] them at the start of the semester when the
assignments are due. At least two weeks ahead, make sure
those assignments are available to them. That's the best
thing you can do, because then it allows them to plan.
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