I start each class with a daily agenda slide because it helps me and the students stay on track! If I’m being honest, I do 99% of my planning through my slides. Hopefully, by the end of this blog post, I will have convinced you why you too, should use daily agenda slides.
Daily agenda slides create a structured and organized environment for both you and your students. With a consistent format, your students will effortlessly follow along and help you stay on track during your lessons. Need to share a video? Just pop in a link!
Want to amp up your student-teacher connection and promote social-emotional learning? Incorporate a daily attendance question! It’s a fantastic icebreaker, and my students love it. My students know where to find it each day so they can have their answers ready to go when I take attendance! I just have my students answer aloud but you could give them submit answers online or on paper.
Time is a precious commodity in the classroom, and every minute counts. By displaying a daily agenda slide with a timer, you can help students better manage their time during class. They will know exactly what is expected of them and how much time they have to complete each task. You can easily add a timer through Google Slides by inserting a timer from Youtube!
My students look forward to seeing the learning target of the day, so I include it on the slide just for them. SIKE! They do not care, but it is helpful for you to see what you taught each day of the year. I organized my daily agenda slides by month so each year I can see how I’m doing with pacing. Plus, when those admin visits happen (we all know they do), they can see your thoughtfully planned learning objectives shining brightly on your slides!
You know those precious minutes at the beginning of class when students shuffle around like caffeinated penguins? Say goodbye to that chaos! At the start of each class, students know exactly what to work on and what tabs should be open on their computers.
I know you’re itching to jump aboard the daily agenda slide train, and I’ve got a treat for you! I’ve prepared a full year’s worth of daily agenda slides with attendance questions, and guess what? They get a monthly makeover with unique themes! So, don’t wait another second – check them out right here and embrace the organizational magic!
Daily agenda slides – your classroom’s new best friend!
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Hi Asia. I am currently a third year student at Capital University studying Middle Childhood Education with subject areas in math and science. I stumbled across your blog and this post specifically while researching for a class. As a student and a student teacher in classrooms, this is something I have always enjoyed seeing in a classroom, and especially in a Middle School classroom. Middle School is a time for these students to try and get a routine while doing things for themselves, and I have always believed a Daily Agenda slide makes it so much easier for them to start there day in your class (not to mention it makes it a lot easier on a teachers part if the students are prepared to learn!). I enjoyed that you included to add a timer in your slide as it gives the students a set time to get settled in and be ready for class as you may not have a lot of time depending on your schools schedule. Lastly, I enjoy that you include learning targets on your slides, because yes students are excited to see what the end goal of the lesson is, it gives them a goal to work towards during the lesson and know if they are achieving the goal.
Hi Tyler! You are preparing for your classroom early!! I love it!!! Best of luck with the rest of your studies and thank you for such positive feedback. Daily agenda slides are the best!
Great ideas for novice and veteran teachers alike. I look forward to September and giving some of these ideas a shot in my sixth grade math classroom
I’d love to hear how it goes!!