5 ways to organize your student teacher desk

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That let's get on to the
episode.

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Welcome back to another episode
of the Edgy Magic Podcast.

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My name is Doctor Sam Fessage,
and today I am sharing with you

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five ways you can organize your
desk as a student teacher.

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Now, I know when you go into a
classroom as a student teacher,

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your desk can be up front.
It could be to the side of the

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room, it could be in the back of
the room.

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It could also be a student desk.
It could be a table or a kidney

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table.
It could also actually be a

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regular desk, which is great.
Or maybe it's a cart.

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No matter what size or location
your student teaching desk might

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be, there are lots of ways to
really make it your own, to make

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it an effective workspace and a
space that's efficient and user

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friendly and approachable for
students.

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So let's go ahead and talk about
the why, the what and the how.

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How to make your student teacher
desk a place of peace, a place

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of efficiency, where you can
find everything, where

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everything is located.
It's your home base in the

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classroom.
As a student teacher, you are

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juggling lesson plans, you're
grading, you're doing the

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attendance, you're doing the
feedback, and you're doing all

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the teacher things.
And so you need a space just

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your own.
You don't want it to be a messy

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space.
You want it to be a place where

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you can find everything, right?
Having it organized in a space

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where everything has its spot
and there's a spot for

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everything.
By having an organized desk, it

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can help you find materials
quickly.

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Find those resources that copies
of those lesson plans that you

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know you printed last Friday,
right?

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It can help you create an
approachable environment for

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students to come up, ask you
questions or chat with you at

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the end or before class.
It's a great space.

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You're going to manage all the
paperwork that you're going to

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have and at the end that one of
my last tips is a great way for

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you to start to pull that
paperwork digitally.

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So stay tuned for that.
So let's go ahead and jump in to

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some of our tips for managing
your student teacher desk, no

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matter the size or the location.
The first thing is to figure out

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what do you use most often?
Do you use pens, pencils,

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highlighters, note cards, post
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binder clips?
What are some things that you

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use most often?
So for me, some things that I

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use most often to be index
cards, post it notes, pens, and

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fun markers.
I like to have those available

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so I can grab them all, take
them to my classroom and take

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them all back.
I like to have a box for that

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because I travel to my
classroom.

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So I don't have a desk that I
can run back and grab my sticky

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notes and run back over to this
teaching space.

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Instead, I have to take it all
with me.

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But you probably have a teaching
space.

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So figure out what you use most
often and how can you put that

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on your desk so it's easily can
be easily reached.

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So maybe that is like using a
desk caddy, one of the ones that

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spins be really fun because you
can quickly just grab what you

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need.
Maybe you like one with drawers

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so you can pull the stuff out
and put it back in a drawer so

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it's all in its spot.
So figure out what's used most

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often and how can you organize
it?

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Group those items together.
So like put your paper clips and

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your binder clips together, post
it notes and index cards

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together, whatever it might be.
Maybe you have really fun

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teacher stickers and instead of
having them like in your teacher

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bag and in this one drawer and
over here on a shelf, put them

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all together in one spot.
And if you do have teacher

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stickers, do you have like the
scratch and sniff kind where you

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can smell them?
Oh, those are so fun.

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All right, but I digress.
Anyway, you want to make sure

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you prioritize.
Prioritize what you use most

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often and make sorts within
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That's tip 1.
Tip 2 is try to use space in a

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different way.
So maybe you're limited to the

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size of a student desk and you
just have that little insert

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drawer that you could just throw
some stuff in.

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So maybe think about using
vertical space in organizing

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your student teacher desk.
I have in my office this really

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fun Hershey bar.
It used to be in a store where

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they would put Hershey bars on
the separate shelves and you

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can, you know, just grab your
Hershey bar, but it's a tray

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that has three levels, a top, a
middle and a bottom level and

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has Hershey, Hershey bars on the
side.

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I found it at a probably at a
flea market years ago.

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And I, I sat there and I told my
dad, I'm like, dad, I can use

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that to put all my tests in
things I need to return, things

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I need to get back, all that
stuff.

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And Oh my gosh, it has been so
much fun.

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I now use it as a professor.
I have it hanging on my wall and

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I will throw in there.
OK, so here are my Elkanen

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boxes.
I need to bring the class on

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Wednesday.
Here are my phonemic awareness

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activities.
I'm going to have students in

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implement and use and try out in
class on Friday.

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So I'll sort it like that.
And that has been a lot of fun.

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So it's using that vertical
space.

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So you can get a vertical
stacking filing system that

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stands on your desk and you can
put papers in there.

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Papers you need to collect.
Maybe you pop in your lesson,

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maybe you have 5 vertical
stockings and one is for Monday,

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Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday.

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All your different lesson plans
are in there and all the copies

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that you need are in there.
Maybe you have one that's for a

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test that you need to give
assessments that you need to

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give back, those types of
things.

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That's also a really neat way to
do kind of sneaky attendance.

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You're like, oh I forgot to
attendance, go ahead and look

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back.
Oh, I didn't pass back so and

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so's paper.
They weren't here today.

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So go ahead and think about
using that space a little bit

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differently.
Find a fun shelf.

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If you can't find anything super
fun, decorate it yourself.

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Spray paint it or add some
stickers.

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Add your own personality to it,
because that's our next activity

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way to organize your student
teacher desk.

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Add some personalization.
You just don't want it to be a

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desk.
Add some fun stuff to it.

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Think about like a plant.
Or if you're like me, you're not

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so good at keeping the real ones
alive.

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Go ahead and grab a fake one
because they're super cute too,

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and you can have a really nice
potted plant or a little cute

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little pot to put it in.
Maybe you want to put it in one

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of your favorite teacher modes.
You can do that.

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A framed picture of you and your
family.

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Nice way to start conversation
with students.

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Maybe you want to have a little
desk calendar on on your desk.

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You can have that.
Another really fun one is a

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personalized name plate with
like your teacher name, Miss Mr.

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MX, Miss Misses, whatever it is,
and then you're allowed last

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name.
That's a really fun one.

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And so also something you can
get on Etsy or on Amazon or you

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can even make yourself.
They're really a nice way to

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like elevate your student
teacher desk with a nice cute

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little name plate.
And then I would also recommend

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having a spot on your desk.
Maybe it's like a blank frame,

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you know, think of the one from
friends hanging on the door in

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Rachel and Monica's apartment.
It's just a blank frame, but you

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can feature student work in
there and you can have it

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hanging from your desk.
That would be super fun.

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Or just have a spot somewhere
where you can feature student

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work because guess what?
No matter what grades you teach,

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you are going to get pictures
and drawings and letters and

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cards.
It's just a nice way to to show

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that.
Oh, thank you so much.

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Let me put, let me hang it here.
Where should we hang it?

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Where do you think a nice place
would be?

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So that's another really fun way
to add some personalization too.

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And then of course, you're going
to keep those, right?

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So put them all nice in a nice
little file folder.

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Maybe clean it out once a month,
maybe put everything in a file

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folder.
And then you have a whole new

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space for the month for it to
showcase student work and

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student pictures and drawings
and all those good things.

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Next up is digital organization.
Friends, you are going to have

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so many resources coming your
way from your mentor teacher,

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from specialists in the
building, from tech specialists.

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You'll have websites and printed
resources.

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So later in the episode, I'm
going to talk about some ways

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you can change those printed
resources into digital in just a

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moment.
But when we talk about digital

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organization here, what I'm
thinking with this one is having

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a spare laptop charger because
you never know when you're like,

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oh, I thought I charged it last
night.

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Whoops, I did it.
And then you don't have a laptop

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charge, have a spare laptop
charger, have multiple ways to

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connect your laptop to the
projector or the display system.

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So I recommend a USBAVGA and
HDMI.

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Those are all great examples of
connectors to have, like in your

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digital organization and your
digital organization.

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This can be your charger and all
your connectors.

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This can be in a little bag, a
little zip up bag.

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There's some really cute
personalized ones over on Etsy.

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You can grab those or if you
don't grab a zip lock bag, put

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them all together and just keep
it in your desk, in a drawer or

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under the desk, wherever you
want it to be.

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So it's really easy to reach
because you're going to be like,

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oh, I forgot my charger or oh
man, this one, connector ports

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not working.
What am I going to do?

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You have some backups and you
come prepared and ready to go.

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So it's going to be a really
nice addition to your student

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teacher desk as a place for a
digital organization.

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If you want to get fancy
schmancy, you can get those cord

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connectors or those ways to
organize cords.

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You can do that and have you can
have a surge protector as well

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for plugging in all the things.
Another key when it comes to

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digital organization, if your
phone is out, put it away.

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We talked about this in the last
episode.

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Keep your phone out of reach.
You're not just grabbing it and

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scrolling because you want to
make sure that you're still

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engaged in the classroom and
you're not just scrolling your

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phone.
So please just put that away

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until planning period or lunch
or after school.

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You can check all the things
then.

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So just put it away.
It is OK.

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And then the last thing you want
to make sure that you have is of

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course the student teacher
planner.

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Friends, So many times I get
asked by student teachers, what

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do I even put in my binder, in
my 3 ring binder or in my

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planner.
I don't even know where to get

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started.
It is really hard to think

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about, OK, what am I going to
put in here?

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How am I going to keep it
organized?

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Well, the student teacher
planner cuts out all that

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overwhelm because I've set it up
for you and I've set you up for

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success.
It has options for a lesson

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planning, observations,
reflections, contact pages,

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rosters, student teaching
checklist, reflect action

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prompts, procedures and
policies.

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So many resources you're going
to grab in the student teacher

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planner.
You can head on over to the show

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notes and grab it there.
It is on my Teacherspayteachers

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store.
It's only 10 bucks.

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You can download it, you can use
it on CAMI or on Canva, you can

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edit the PDF or you can download
it and print it and put it in a

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three ring biner and have it
ready to go.

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It is seriously one of the best
tools student teachers can use

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to stay organized.
Now, remember I told you earlier

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in the episode I was like, OK,
I'm going to share with you a

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really great way to get all
those paper products into

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digital.
Well, one way to do that is

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through tools like Office Lens
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Both are apps you can download.
I'm gonna specifically talk

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about Office Lens because you
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worksheet or a picture of a page
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sign, whatever it might be, and
it'll save it to your OneDrive.

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It'll also create an OCR Word
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So then you can edit the text
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So let's say your teacher's
like, all right, we have to

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adapt this text page for several
different reading levels.

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Well, guess what?
Take a picture of it.

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You don't have to retype the
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Take a picture of it.
It saves it as an OCR Word doc.

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You can just go ahead, open it
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reading level.
Maybe you want to use a tool

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like Different to edit that or
edit it on your own and then

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bada Bing bada boom, you are
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And you can add an updated
photos into the page if you

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wanted to.
So there's really a nice way to

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do that.
But when I when you think about

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organization, you're getting all
these resources thrown at you.

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For me, whenever I was suited
teaching a while back, I had a

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bin with file folders and
hanging files where I sorted

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stuff, math and literacy and
science and social studies and

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then by grade level and then by
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It was a hot mess.
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everything and I had a hard time
really letting that go.

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But honestly, I feel like if I
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would have felt so much more
organized because I can sort, I

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can tag, you can do, you can
save everything right into

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OneDrive and it's ready to go.
So definitely recommend Office

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Lens Kami does the same thing.
Kami both are fantastic apps.

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If you've used them before,
please share in the comments.

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You know how you've used them,
what you've used them for, all

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right?
So you might be thinking, Oh my

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gosh, these tips are fantastic.
From prioritizing what I use

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most often, using vertical
space, personalizing but not

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getting too cluttered because I
want to personalize with

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intention, having a spot for all
my digital content like my

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charger and my cords.
I'm definitely going to grab

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that student teacher planner.
You might be the OK.

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This is all great, but how do I
keep up with all this?

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With all the busy busyness of
the day and students checking in

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and teaching and reflecting and
connecting and collaborating,

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Yes, it can be a lot.
I have 3 little tips to help

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you.
One would be to tidy up your

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desk during maybe planning time.
Put items back where they

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belong.
If everything is just a skew on

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your desk, just take a quick 2
minutes, hurry up, put

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everything back wherever it
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Do that.
You know when you can, at the

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end of each day, make sure you
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Get a thing of those Clorox
wipes, right?

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Wipe down the surfaces, wipe
down everything on your desk,

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clear off your desk, wipe it
down to get rid of all those

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pesky germs.
Because we do not want to get

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sick during student teaching.
We want to keep ourselves

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healthy.
And then throughout the month,

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continue to look through the
worksheets and the paperwork

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that you've compiled throughout
that month.

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And then establish a routine
like, OK, every Friday I'm going

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to get all these papers, stuff
that I want to keep and remember

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I'm going to take a picture of
and file it digitally, right?

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Anything I feel like, OK, I'm
never going to use that again,

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toss it or shred it, whatever it
needs to do.

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That way, each month you're
coming up with a clear space.

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And guess what?
Now you have a nice clear little

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spot for more student work that
you can now organize it using

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your vertical system and
organized desk friends can

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really help you feel confident
and ready for the day.

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You know where everything is.
Everything has its space instead

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of like, oh, where did I put
this?

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I can't find that You have calm
and you have peace and your and

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your student teacher desk space
friends.

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I wish you the best of luck
during student teaching.

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And I know that this episode was
geared towards student teachers

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who have a 16 or 8 week
placement in a classroom.

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But if you're in a short term
field, like a three-week field,

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you could totally use these tips
to help you get organized in

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your space as well.
All right friends, remember you

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have the edgy magic within you.
And for these tips and all the

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resources mentioned, head on
over to sfestus.com for more.

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Bye for now.
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