Making your own school folder

Data Sheet:
A one-sheet form to be attached inside or placed at the front contains critical information. Yours will end up different from mine, but this will give you a starting place. If you go to very many schools, you’re not likely to remember procedures a couple of months later.
A photocopied form with blanks to fill in and yes/no boxes to check may work for you.

Your pocket computer/phone, might be the best way to store this information these days. With photos of bell schedules, maps, and so on stored digitally, seating charts might be the only paper in your folder.

School name:
Address:
Phone number:
Times:

• office opens
• official arrival
• first class
• departure

Directions:

• travel time

Names + phone numbers:

• principal
• sub’s secretary
• head secretary
• campus security
• student management
• others

Logins + passwords:

• yours
• teachers’
• photocopy machine
• others

Sign in:

• where (map)
• what

Keys:

• where get (map)
• Where turn in

Attendance:

• roll sheets (map)
• office (map)
• tardy, time become absent
• previous absence
• clearing procedure
• where record
• excused/cleared
• absence/tardy

What’s banned as school policy:

• how strictly enforced

Hall passes:

• how strictly enforced

Library: (map)

• pass required?
• number of students send per class
• sign-in required?

Adverse consequences:

• detention proceedure
• referral to whom?
• time out room (map)

Emergency procedures

• Campus monitor/security:
• how call?
• Health Clinic, Nurse: (map)
• how send?

Counselors: (map)

• appointment slip required to go?
• okay to let student go to make appointment? (Usually not)
• sign-in at counseling office required?
  

Maps are often unreadable due to copying, and lack valuable information. Copy and rewrite illegible room numbers.
Label rooms where you can find:

• Photocopy machine(s) Where pick up finished copy orders.
  (Personal use of copy machine is appropriate for making your own school folder, and for forms you use in subbing: Substitute’s Summary and seating charts. All other personal use is theft.)
• Scantron
• Bookroom
• Library
• Faculty lounge, microwave
• Vending machines
• Water locations
• Teachers’ mail boxes

Bell schedules
Also include:

• Seating charts from previous assignments
• Phone numbers and email addresses of teachers as acquired
  A master list for teachers from all schools may be more convenient.

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