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This month I am sharing my absolute favorite system for organizing all my teaching units. I have been teaching for over 20 years (I'm not going to say how many years over 20- I'll keep that my little secret) and I have tried many different organizational methods. I've purchased big Rubbermaid tubs and stored all my things for the month in there. That was great, but boy did it take up A LOT of storage space. I ended up storing those tubs at home in my garage which meant that my car lost it's inside home. (Boo hoo)
I've tried to put things into filing cabinets. Once again, this takes up a lot of space and it seems like stuff was constantly getting mis-filed or not filed at all. I could never find what I was looking for until I found it weeks or months later in the wrong place. My blackline masters were always getting torn and crinkled as well. I currently have 3 filing cabinets full of stuff!
Last year, my coworker began putting her blacklines into 3 ring binders. I waited to see how she liked it before getting my own binder system going. Well, she LOVED it. So mid way through the year I began to slowly organize my stuff by units into 1 inch binders. I also purchased a few bigger binders for those huge subjects that needed more space.
As I finished or planned a unit, I would put my blacklines into page protectors and into the binder they went. My blacklines stayed pristine and organized. They were easy to find when I needed them and I no longer got them mixed up with my stuff when I was making copies. I simply copied them and then they went right back into the page protector for safe keeping. It was super easy to find what I was looking for, prep it, and then get the precious masters back into the binder.
I'm still in the process of getting rid of those 3 filing cabinets. I'm going in to school one day a week during the summer and going through each drawer. My goal is to have only one filing cabinet left at the end of the summer. I will use that to hold the sample projects that don't fit into the page protectors. I am so excited about the amount of classroom space I will be gaining!
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