what does a teacher need to do the day or week before the 1st day of kindergarten or preschool?
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I don't teach the small kids, but I think that there are some things that all teachers need to do before the kids come in:\n\n1.  Make sure your room is set up with the appropriate materials, posters, decorations....  Every grade requires that certain things are posted.  You may have to have a calendar posted with the days of the week spelled out and the seasons posted on it for little ones.  You may need the basic colors posted, the alphabet....\n\n2.  Make sure that you have a week and a half worth of lessons planned.  Teachers have to overplan at all times.\n\n3.  Call the parents to introduce yourself.\n\n4.  Prepare a letter to the parents.\n\n5.  Prepare a syllabus and rule list for your parents to read and sign.\n\nI hope this helps a bit!
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gym teacher, or any kind of teacher, early childhood education, infant/toddler, respiratory care, occupational therapy, social worker
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State Employees get paid the day before a holiday.  If they normally get paid on a Friday and it is a holiday, they get paid that Thursday.  They always get paid BEFORE the due payday, never after.\n\n(Teachers are State Employees, I am also a State Employee)
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If a child is not quite ready for a structured classroom setting they will be held back. A child that has less than a 20 min. attention span is sometimes held back, alot of it depends on the teacher. I have found teacher's that expect a 3-4 year old to sit still in their seats and quiet for 30 mins. at a time and that is not normal for a 3-4 year old. A preschool teacher needs to have something different going on about every fifteen mins. When I was teaching preschool my 3 year olds could write their names after the first month of school, count to 20, and memorize the poem of the week by Wednesday. My 4 year old students were taking simple spelling and math(adding and subtracting # 1-20 with no barrowing) by Christmas break. I taught a small class that can also be the key to good learning. My class was never over 14 students. Hope this helps !!
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Rule the classroom with an iron glove. Be friendly but not overly friend. Before you start the class make sure you have a lesson plan. If the absent teacher fails to leave one, make them read, or ask them what they did yesterday, or if they have an important test coming up. Just don't be over friendly. They'll eat you.
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I would organize by school district.\n\nElementary Teacher - Happytown School District\nSept 2006 - Present\n- talk \n- about\n- your\n- current \n- job\n\nElementary Teacher - Smileville School District\n2001 - 2006\n- Taught and created lessons and units for students in Grade 1 and Grade 2\n- Provided support for students with various special needs (behavioural, social, cognitive) in Grade 3, 4 and 5\n- Worked in both urban and rural schools [or something else to indicate you worked in two schools and adapted to their differences]\n- talk\n- more\n- about\n-  your\n- job
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It depends on what level of English you teach.  Pehaps you could instruct your students to describe appropriate types of clothing for different weather conditions.  Another idea is to have them describe their diet and exercise habits, hobbies, responsibilities, and other daily tasks.
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Ask one of the teacher's for help.
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Kindergarten is usually 5 yrs onld.  1,2,&3 I've found to be day care.  A,B,C is a perennial favorite.  Also, Wheels on the Bus.
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Hi, if you Google pre-school work sheets, you will find a ton of different sights. I used a few of them when I was a pre-school teacher.
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Teaching preschool can be very stressfull.  The number of students depends of the state requirements.  For 4 year olds it's usually 10 kids to 1 adult.  Most classrooms have up to 20 kids with one qualified teacher and an aide.  Depending on how the teacher runs the classroom, determines how loud and stressfull it is.  There needs to be a daily lesson plan as well as a behavior plan with individual goals for the children depending on their needs.  A well organized, experienced teacher can make a world of difference.
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Most professors use the first day of class for introducing himself or herself, handing out the syllabus, discussing exams and the grading system, ensuring the students found the textbook(s) and briefly touching on the chapters, and answering any questions. If it's a once-weekly class (such as a 3-hour night class), then the professor will probably dive into the course content, but likely discuss just a simple introduction to the course and its main topics.
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I expect there will be many answers suggesting that it isn't too early to rub textbooks against one's pregnant belly, but I think one can relax quite a bit; as a retired teacher, here's my suggestion:\n\nThe most important first lesson a child can learn is how to be socialized.  You can be sure the other kids will let him know what's ok, and what isn't!  This is the purpose of any organized education before First Grade.\n\nSome people like to get a start on teaching the alphabet before 1st G., but, because when we are very young our attention span is small and our retention is slight, I don't think there's much use in drilling the alphabet until the age of 5 or 6.  Really.  \n\nHere's when I would suggest that you get serious:  2d or 3d G.  Pay attention to what interests the child; observe how his mind works:  does he think analytically?  Deductively?  Intuitively?  (At all?  ...Sorry, couldn't resist).\n\nI'd start making exciting materials available to him as he begins to show interest:  building toys for the analytically inclined; colorful age-appropriate magazines for the introspective, and so on.  Tailor the item for the child's special interest; and yet, be sure to add subjects that are new and exciting from time to time!
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Every individual school district will be different. You need to be more specific. \n\nLooks like school starts 8/14\n\nSee http://kaufman.ednet10.net/
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have a routine and make sure they get up early enough to complete it with 10 minutes to spare for cartoon time
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Our school district designates certain days as "Teacher Work Days" or "Teacher Development Days" when students cannot be on campus. These are important days that allow teachers to spend time needed to plan, collaborate and generally improve their teaching skills by attending workshops and conferences. With most of the school year spent in the classroom, teachers hardly have time to meet with other teachers to collaborate, plan, explore new teaching techniques or improve their skills.\n\nAfter a school day or on Friday, most teachers (at our school at least) take loads of work home to grade, etc. Some teachers regularly come in on the weekend, too. A few days spread out during the school year without students provides necessary non-student time during the work week that teachers really need.\n\nI agree that the child care issue is a problem for those households with two parents who work. However, if a school year calendar is provided which tell parents when non-student days are scheduled, couldn't parents arrange child care well ahead of time? Before I became a teacher six years ago--when I had children at home--I reviewed the school year calendar when I got it before the end of the current school year and arranged childcare well ahead of time. Just a thought.
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I teach a couple kindergarten music classes and they're not too far beyond preschool, so maybe some of these things will work for you too.\n\nI play the "hot and cold" game except with loud and soft.  One student hides an item in the room.  Another student looks for it.  As he/she gets closer to the item, the rest of the class claps louder.  As they get further away, they clap more softly.  This teaches them dynamics.\n\nI also play a singing game where we use a stuffed animal that correlates with the season.  Right now I am using a turkey.  One student puts their back to the rest of the class.  I give the turkey to a student that is behaving well.  The entire class sings "Who has the turkey?" on Mi - Do - Fa- Mi - Do on the following rhythm. \nquarter, eighth, eighth, quarter, quarter.  (One syllable per pitch)  After the entire class sings "Who has the turkey" twice, the child that actually has it sings it twice by themselves.  The child that has their back to the class then tries to guess who has it by recognizing their voice.  The kids love it!  Sorry if I couldn't explain it well.  You could use whatever melody you want to sing, you don't have to use the one that I attempted to explain using solfege.