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Organizing your worksheets



aksjomaty
Poland

Organizing your worksheets
 
Hello dear Teachers,
I �ve got a question for you - how do you organize your worksheets and other teaching materials?
Do you group them by level, age of students, skill, function, student �s book they go with, grammar point, topic, vocabulary?
I �ve got a problem with that, I mean they very often fall into more than one category, right?
I �ve managed to collect huge amount of material so far, but it �s rather a mess right now, so I �m looking for some efficient "storage method" :)
How do you handle your collection?
Looking forward to hearing your tips :)
Hugs from foggy Poland :)

17 Nov 2009      





libertybelle
United States

I have my things in main folders and sub-folders:

Grammar

and under that I have sub-folders for:
verbs, adverbs, adjectives etc.

I also have folders for:
games
informative worksheets (by category)
Ecology
Violence
Identities - etc

Vocabulary learning:
The House
Classroom
Family
Furniture
Pets - etc.

Reading materials
Writing materials
Essay ideas
Teaching ideas

Working with Word Program

and many more.

But most important I save all the Wss by title and with the author �s name.

17 Nov 2009     



Kate (kkcat)
Russian Federation

I just print out the WSs I need to use in class and then put them in a few folders I have according to their purpose :) But in my computer it can take me ages to find �that WS by this author � and sometimes I first find this WS here on the site then look at the date it was uploaded and then look through all the WSs I downloaded on that exact date :) Usually I find...if not - I just download it again.
Though a few months ago I used the same mehtod as libertybelle �s and have some of the worksheets saved by title and name of the author.

17 Nov 2009     



Tatyana83
Armenia

i have a messssss....in my PC..a have FOLDERS..named...if i need something sometimes i USE..SEaRCh..

17 Nov 2009     



SaraMariam
United States

I use the same method with main folders and subfolders, sometimes even subsubfolders to be more precise since my collection is growing and it �s not always easy to find the exact ws that i wanted; e.g. house - rooms - batgroom - furniture / house - rooms - bathroom - objects. I like to keep the dates of the ws; sicne sometimes I find a part 2 missing; so i can search again on the site to find it:)

17 Nov 2009     



Olindalima ( F )
Portugal

Hi friends

I am a kind of organized being, I hate things out of place.
This means that I AM ALWAYS STRESSED ; BECAUSE I NEVER MANAGE WHAT I WANT.

Anyway, in my computer I have a folder for my 5th form and another for my sixthies. Inside each one , I have folders according:
main vocabulary
grammar and sub folders on different items
festivities
clipart (and zillions of subfolders )
games
planning
.....
inside each folder I have tons of documents


I also have the author´s name in each printable, well, not all exactly, the first ones I downloaded I didn´´t take note, but now , I always download the printable with its original name and the author´s name.


I also have some folders from our big, big stars, here in ESL

But I keep on looking for a better way to organize all this stuff!!!! NOT EASY!!!!

Hope I have helped, but. my opinion, probably not.

Not the right place to write this, even so, excuse me. let me say a BIG hello to my dear Saraamiriam. Hope everything is ok with you, big hug to Sara

Hugs to all of you
linda

18 Nov 2009     



manuelanunes3
Portugal

Hi! Smile
 
I organize the worksheets by putting them into folders by subject and grammar items. Like this:
 
- house
- food
- adjectives
- conditionals
- clothes
- simple present
- simple past
 
Then I have some folders with the grades where I put special worksheets that I am sure I will use because they are very very good and useful and because they are exactly what I will need in the future.
 
- 6th form
- 7th form
- 8th form
- Secondary
 
I also organize them by their names and sometimes I add the author´s name.

18 Nov 2009     



aksjomaty
Poland

Thank you so much for all replies :)
Cheers from not-so-cold-and-ugly-today Poland :)

18 Nov 2009