1. Organization… Necessary or Not
Kassie Burke, Andrea Canales, Milena Vorajakkmol

2. Organization: A Necessary Skill in Becoming a Teacher
Good Teachers Stay Organized
Helps Spread Ideas
Knowing Where to Look
Being a teacher is all about saving YOUR own behind! There are so many rules and regulations that you have to keep up with, in addition to the many student files and records of anything from their grades to their behavior sheets. Organization is a must! Not only will it make your life easier, but it also will save you when it comes to a crucial situation.
If you are one of those teachers that LOVES what you do, your amazing ideas will want to be copied (from those who need a quick go-to plan or just other teachers who want to do something cool like you did) so you need to have the lesson plans or activities that were memorable written down or created in a file somewhere. When someone asks you if they could borrow a lesson or activity from MONTHS ago, you have it right at your fingertips and don’t have to take time out of YOUR day to search for it.
If ANYONE asks you for ANYTHING, you don’t have to be one of those ‘Oh I’ll have to get back to you” and never find what you’re looking for. Teachers are already spread thin sometimes that any patience needed to find documents or forms or anything will make you even more stressed. Being organized helps you know where to look every time, and takes the burden of being a detective off your shoulders.

3. What Organization Can Do For You
Social Networks
Self- Confidence
Cognitive Functioning
Saves Time
Eliminates Stress
Helps Prepare for Teaching
Professional Appeal
VS.
Being organized has many more benefits that out way the chose to be unorganized. It may take a little more effort to be organized but in the end it is the best route. When you are organized more people are likely to want to work with you and networking comes in handy in any profession. If you were in charge who would you be more likely to hire or consider for a promotion the teacher who has a desk like the left or one who is organized like the right? If I were to have to work at an area like the left it would affect my mental state and the students.

4. Resources: What to Use Google Drive iCloud Binders Planner
Graphic Organizers

5. Lifelong Benefits
Professional
Personal

6. Being Unprepared… This could happen to you!!
Meet Unprepared Ursula
Looks Unprofessional
Wastes instructional, students’, and teacher’s time
Allows for uncontructive “free” time
1. When you are unprepared as a teacher, you might as well just call it a day. Not only will it waste YOUR instructional time, but it will also waste your students’ crucial question time. For example if you are supposed to be teaching an important math concept that

7. Being Prepared… You want this to be you!!
Meet Prepared Priscilla
Professional appeal
Less stress
Keep lessons on schedule
Allows for more student-centered time
Allows for more constructive free time
1. When you are unprepared as a teacher, you might as well just call it a day. Not only will it waste YOUR instructional time, but it will also waste your students’ crucial question time. For example if you are supposed to be teaching an important math concept that