June 10, 2016

Organizing Your SGM Materials for the New School Year

As another school year winds down, I am reminded of what I always loved about teaching: There was always another year to plan to engage children, change approaches, learn new techniques, and grow as a professional!

As you pack up supplies and begin a few weeks of rest, file this idea away with your materials to consider implementing next year. This picture is an idea that Natalia Kofman, a colleague of mine in Westfield, MA, used to organize her SGM^® materials in her fourth grade classroom.

Poster Board Organization What I liked about it so much was that is was easy to change maps to correspond to your goals for specific groups of students. The cardboard display poster and plastic pockets can be ordered online and can be EASILY Pocket Folder Samples moved to different locations / student groups within the classroom.

This method also lends itself to teachers who travel from room to room. If you have other ways that you organize your SGM^® materials, please share them on our MindWing Concepts Facebook page.

Thank you Natalia, for letting us share this idea!

Sheila Zagula

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Sheila Zagula works with MindWing Concepts in product development, drawing on her expertise and talents as well as many years of implementing the Story Grammar Marker® and related materials. Her teaching career spans thirty-eight years, most recently as literacy coach in the Westfield Massachusetts Public School System. Sheila has experience as an early childhood educator, a teacher of children with special needs, and a collaborative instructor within an inclusion framework serving children in grades K-5.