Start Out Right  

• Know your school

• Dress for success

• Arrange your room

• Complete a Before School Starts Checklist

Get Off to a Smart Start - http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/get-smart-start

This is a great website from Scholastic that offers great links to help with the following: Back to School Checklist, 10 Ways to Decorate your Classroom, Letters to Welcome Parents and Teachers, Top 5 Ways to Welcome Students Back to School, and Proven Strategies from Real Strategies.

Beginning of the Year Teacher Strategies - http://712educators.about.com/cs/backtoschool/a/teacherstrats.htm

This site offers great tips and reminders to help you start the year off right. With so many things to do, it is nice to have something you can use to make sure that you have all of your bases covered before the first school bell rings!

Teachers.Net – Effective Teaching by Harry and Rosemary Wong:This website offers a series of classroom management articles from a legend of classroom management, Harry Wong. The articles below have information on starting the year right.

      How to Start a Class Effectively -  http://teachers.net/wong/OCT00

      There is Only One First Day of School - http://teachers.net/wong/AUG00

      A First Day of School Script - http://teachers.net/wong/MAR03

         The First Ten Days of School - http://teachers.net/wong/SEP07/

Behavior Advisor - http://behavioradvisor.com/ClassroomDesign.html:  Utilize this site to plan for your classroom design and optimize the environment for classroom management.

Classroom Management Tips and Beginning of the Year Ideas - http://www.fvsd.ab.ca/stm/classroom_management_tips_and_be.htm

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    A nice list of suggestions and tips for starting off the school year.