Every year, we strive to bring you new useful year end teacher survival tips that you can implement in your classroom at the end of the year, or modify to suit the specific needs of your class.
5 Year End Teacher Survival Tips
After you read the year end teacher survival tips on this blog, be sure to check out the links below for other fantastic ideas from real teachers for teachers.
#1: Maintain Classroom Routines
Keep up all of your classroom routines until the last day of school. This is not the time to try a new classroom management system or change routines that your students are familiar with.
#2: Put the Students in Charge!
Give students a chance to be the teachers. Plan your lessons so students are the ones teaching. You could use the jigsaw small group method or whole class instruction. I love to put students in charge of year end review.
#3: Letters for the Future
Have your current students write an advice letter to your future students. In the letter, have your students write survival tips for achieving success in your grade. I save these for the first day of the new school year.
#4 BONUS: Try a no-prep resource!
Keep your students engaged during the lsat few weeks through engaging and exciting activities. Here is one to try:
End of the Year Activities
As the school year winds down, it is important to keep your students engaged and excited until the very last day. Use this End of the Year Activities resource packed with 6 fantastic activities to make those final days and weeks memorable and fun.
This resource includes:
- Letter Writing
- School Year Reflections Memory Book
- Read It Book Recommendations
- Six-Word Memoirs
- Thank You Cards
- Summer Creative Writing Assignment
- Print and Digital Formats
You can find these End of the Year Activities on Shopify CAD or Teachers Pay Teachers USD.
You can also save money and buy the End of the Year Mega Bundle! This bundle includes everything listed above and four more resources:
- Are Public Pools Safe? Non-Fiction Article
- Amusement Parks Non-Fiction Article
- End of the Year Digital Escape Room
- Chewing Gum Sales Decline Podcast Lesson
You can find the End of the Year Mega Bundle on Shopify CAD or Teachers Pay Teachers USD.
#5 BONUS: Get Year End Teacher Survival Tips From Other Teachers
Seasoned teachers can provide the best advice for surviving the end of the year. Click the links below for even more year end teacher survival tips:
- Kovescence of the Mind
- The Musings of a History Gal
- Beyond the Worksheet
- Joy in 6th
- Teacher Talk
- Leah Cleary
Middle School Activities for the End of the Year
- 3 Highly Engaging Digital End of the Year Activities
- Creative End of the Year Middle School Activities
- Engaging & Fun Middle School End of the Year Lessons
- 21 Fun Non-Academic Middle School End of the Year Activities
- 15 Exciting End of The Year Activities for Middle School Students to Enjoy
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This is just what I needed – testing has all but fried my brain! I like the idea of giving the kids a chance to be the teacher!-LisaMrs. Spangler in the Middle
Love Tip #3 – so helpful for new students to hear from the previous students. Plus the kids probably love giving advice.
Thanks for organizing all of us Kristy!! Great tips!
I love the idea of having students leave advice letters for next year's students!
I will definitely try tip #3. I love the idea of having current students advise future students! I will be doing this!