A day in the life of a teacher can be really chaotic. Then, that day turns into a week and that week turns into a month. If you don’t organize yourself, things will pile up, or even worse, be forgotten.
The life of a 21st-century teacher is busy. You have to juggle teaching with the course and lesson planning, parents’ meetings, marking homework – and much more. Thankfully, there are a number of digital platforms and applications out there to help you.
A day in the life of a teacher can be really chaotic. Then, that day turns into a week and that week turns into a month. If you don’t organize yourself, things will pile up, or even worse, be forgotten.
You all know that being a teacher isn’t just about teaching. It’s also about paperwork, feedback, reporting, planning, organizing and school meetings. In order to do all those things, you’ll need some help from technology.
Here is a list of 5 tools that can be helpful to a teacher who wishes to go beyond the common means of imparting education:
Wunderlist is an easy-to-use and free task manager that can help teachers and other professionals make and organize lists. You can use it on your computer, tablet, and phone at no cost, a great feature for teachers. Wunderlist is very easy to use, and you can take your lists with you everywhere you go so that you are working smarter, not harder. If you are co-teaching, you can share related lists with each other. You can even email tasks to your list. The subject of the email matches the task to the appropriate list.
Trello gives you a view over all the projects, assignments, and other work that needs to be done.Trello lets you create boards with lists. You can name the lists, add different “cards” to the lists, and in turn add documents, links, comments, checklists, etc., to the cards. You can invite your co-teachers to the boards with the lists, such that they can also add cards.
This app’s the system not only stores these quizzes for later but also grades them for you. You can transfer any multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank tests into your grading database.
Nowadays, most of us use our personal mobile phones for contact. Yet, for privacy reasons, you can’t give students or students’ parents your personal contact details.
Slack offers a solution. This digital communication platform offers you a way to interact with your students without compromising your – or their – personal information.
Slack provides a space where teachers can set up specific subject or project channels for groups of students. They can write conversations, questions and share files through these channels. It’s also possible to set up channels with other teachers or students’ parents.
Classcraft is a classroom management system where students can create and customize their own avatar and use it to go on academic adventures. Teachers can create specific “quests” for students to embark on based entirely on their curriculum. This is another productivity booster that also conveniently monitors students’ progress in one place.
It’s also an engaging site where students aren’t just playing a game for fun — they’re enjoying the activities, sure, but they’re also meeting essential learning objectives along the way! So, you can kick back and watch as kids use their devices to complete quests, earn awards, and learn new things.
Educators are always packing neat tools in their bags of tricks, and these online productivity hacks will up your teacher (and students’) game. These apps represent everything you need to get a good teacher workflow and that boost your productivity.
In a world of distractions, we all need to learn how to be efficient with our time. So, what are you waiting for? Try out one of the productivity tools from the list. Who knows? After using some of these apps, you may find that teaching is actually a breeze!
Content Team, Cograd
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