1. Tactic: “Handout with your name on it” Category: Organization Description: This binder will hold all the handouts distributed in class and will be accessible to students so that when they are absent, they will know the first place to look to find out what they missed. Directions: You will need a binder minimum 2”, and a set of 31 tabs. AVERY sells a pack for under $10.00 or you can make your own for much less. The numbers will represent the days of the month. When students are absent, they know to look for the corresponding date of their absence to find any handouts. The goal is to have handouts easily available to students returning from an absence. You can do this in two ways: 1) Assign Handout Buddies for that day’s class so that students who are there can take extra handouts for those who are not; or 2) You can write the names of the absentee students somewhere (on the board or in your daybook), and write their names on extra handouts yourself. Then, put those extra handouts in the binder. Value: We want to encourage students to take responsibility for their own learning and also to take responsibility for getting caught up when they are absent. We have all been swamped with questions from students who have been absent such as “what did I miss”, or “what did we do yesterday?”. I really found this strategy to be useful when trying to get organized because it is easy to loose or misplace handouts after the class ends. This binder would stay in the classroom, and is much more effective than countless folders of random handouts which are difficult to search through, and easy to misplace. This binder will not only help to keep everything together, but will also let the students know that they are still accounted for even when they are absent. You can take this binder one step further and include in it, textbook work, or anything you think students can work on independently. Textbook questions and page numbers do not have to be photocopies, students may be instructed to copy these down from the original which you can write on a piece of lined paper. I would like to thank my associate from Block One for introducing me to this “neat” idea. “There’s a handout with your name on it ”

2. Tactic: “Handout with your name on it” Category: Organization Description: This binder will hold all the handouts distributed in class and will be accessible to students so that when they are absent, they will know the first place to look to find out what they missed. Directions: You will need a binder minimum 2”, and a set of 31 tabs. AVERY sells a pack for under $10.00 or you can make your own for much less. The numbers will represent the days of the month. When students are absent, they know to look for the corresponding date of their absence to find any handouts. The goal is to have handouts easily available to students returning from an absence. You can do this in two ways: 1) Assign Handout Buddies for that day’s class so that students who are there can take extra handouts for those who are not; or 2) You can write the names of the absentee students somewhere (on the board or in your daybook), and write their names on extra handouts yourself. Then, put those extra handouts in the binder. Value: We want to encourage students to take responsibility for their own learning and also to take responsibility for getting caught up when they are absent. We have all been swamped with questions from students who have been absent such as “what did I miss”, or “what did we do yesterday?”. I really found this strategy to be useful when trying to get organized because it is easy to loose or misplace handouts after the class ends. This binder would stay in the classroom, and is much more effective than countless folders of random handouts which are difficult to search through, and easy to misplace. This binder will not only help to keep everything together, but will also let the students know that they are still accounted for even when they are absent. You can take this binder one step further and include in it, textbook work, or anything you think students can work on independently. Textbook questions and page numbers do not have to be photocopies, students may be instructed to copy these down from the original which you can write on a piece of lined paper. I would like to thank my associate from Block One for introducing me to this “neat” idea. “There’s a handout with your name on it ”