Getting Ready For School: Recordkeeping

'Perfect' Record Book? Sounds like famous last words.

With a little time to evaluate how to improve, here are some links with suggestions to make your teaching task easier. Recordkeeping can be a rather personal style choice, sometimes districts provide programs on your teacher computer. The last link, concerning parent-teacher communication, is an area of greatest need for improvement in general, by my observation.

1. Teacher Housekeeping Tasks and Recordkeeping Tasks
http://712educators.about.com/od/teachingstrategies/a/teacher_housekeeping.htm

2. Best teach record-keeping system
http://www.helium.com/items/1573297-tips-on-how-teachers-keep-recordshttp://www.helium.com/items/1573297-tips-on-how-teachers-keep-records

3. Teacher Record Keeping
http://www.education.com/reference/article/teacher-record-keeping/

4. Classrooms Records Management
http://suite101.com/article/classroom-records-management-for-teachers-a76538 

5. 10 apps for teacher's record keeping
http://unitedmontessori.com/blog/2009/9/8/10-apps-for-teachers-record-keeping-social-networking-and-mo.html

6. Establishing effective record keeping
http://teachersnetwork.org/ntol/howto/align/c15768,.htm

It is my experience that when documenting parent communication teachers are least effective, maybe because communication by phone or text is frequently on the run away from desk computers or written record books. But it is very crucial to document all communication with parents.

7. Documenting Parent- Teacher Communication
 http://www.teachervision.fen.com/education-and-parents/printable/59509.html