{"id":8382,"date":"2019-06-28T03:29:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T21:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/?p=8382"},"modified":"2018-12-11T03:37:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T22:07:43","slug":"mad-teacher-preparation-for-the-upcoming-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/mad-teacher-preparation-for-the-upcoming-school-year\/","title":{"rendered":"MAD-teacher Preparation for the Upcoming School Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-10-at-8.52.32-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-10-at-8.52.32-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-10-at-8.52.32-PM.png 630w, https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-10-at-8.52.32-PM-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-10-at-8.52.32-PM-552x286.png 552w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Often, the excitement teachers and students feel when it\u2019s the end of a school year and time to take a break turns into anxiety and anticipation when the holidays are almost over. Time flies! Let\u2019s make time for adequate preparation in order to start off a brand new school year on the right foot. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a MAD-teacher, in your preparation for the upcoming school year, you must factor in preparing to use MAD-learn in your the classroom, maximizing the use of the curriculum, as well as finding ways of keeping students actively engaged. For most teachers, planning ahead is crucial because this ensures that every moment in the classroom is geared towards keeping students active and engaged. In a teacher\u2019s world, there is usually no such thing as planning enough. The overall success in the classroom is dependent on going above and beyond in getting lessons and activities ready.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-10-at-8.44.52-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8371\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-10-at-8.44.52-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-10-at-8.44.52-PM.png 449w, https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-10-at-8.44.52-PM-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When creating a pre-planning back to school checklist, remember to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Include \u00a0double checking with your school to ensure that you and your students have access to the MAD-learn platform on your computers. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If possible, test it out and contact success@mad-learn.com if you run into any issues. Creating this checklist ahead \u00a0of time will not only help in identifying all classroom responsibilities but also prompt thinking about and preparing to tackle every major detail. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make it a point to mark off each task when it is completed. It is also important to reach out to your school to find out which classroom supplies and materials will be provided to you. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maximize the advantage of each item you can receive for free and prepare for those you may need to get on your own all year round such as folders, staples, pens, paper, pencils and the like.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether the MAD-learn curriculum will be treated as a core subject or an elective in your school, the MAD-learn team has you covered with a set of guidelines to suit your class structure. In addition to our curriculum, gathering brainstormed ideas from your students in creating your classroom policies and procedures will facilitate order in the classroom and make your students feel like their opinions count. Getting parents involved by sending home back-to-school student welcome letters which boasts of the amazing apps students will be creating with MAD-learn is likely to get them excited and have something to look forward to from their kids in the course of the school year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keeping in mind that you will be spending a good portion of your day in the classroom for the duration of the school year, planning ahead for your \u201chome away from home\u201d could be extremely beneficial in keeping you focused and on track.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often, the excitement teachers and students feel when it\u2019s the end of a school year and time to take a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8383,"href":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions\/8383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}