If I were to pick the most important item I have bought during my entire career it might surprise you. A good stapler and a box of paperclips is an absolute must, and I’ve just discovered using velcro for laminated items on walls (more on that in a future post). However, if I had to pick ONE thing that has made organizing my classroom easier, it would be my paper organizer. This little gem, officially called a document sorter, puts papers in alphabetical or number order; your choice!
If you’ve been around a while, you probably remember when we had to file everything alphabetically. It was always important to do this with student papers so that we could enter scores into our gradebooks in order by last name. Things may have changed due to technology, but we still need to have a way to alphabetize those daily (hourly? ) papers! The best part? The students can organize the papers themselves!! They just need to find the first letter of their last name (or class number) lift that section, and place their paper! This will be especially valuable if you teach junior high, since you NEVER have time to go through papers before the next class comes in with THEIR papers!
This wonderful tool costs less than 25 dollars and I’ve been using it for 6 years. It still works like new. I got it here https://a.co/d/0gIXpQkz on amazon.
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Document Sorter Picture Below:
