Templates for Teachers

Templates for Teachers

From "Education World" online

MODIFIABLE TEMPLATES

You can modify most of the documents found at the sites discussed in this section before printing them, although upi may find some non-modifiable materials as well.

Forms and Letters
This section of Teacher Tools contains more than 80 templates for documents most teachers use every day. The downloadable templates are listed in four categories: Discipline, Academic, Communication, and Other. Documents include behavior logs and journals, detention forms, hall passes, attendance forms, parent letters, special services referral letters, progress report forms and letters, book report forms, assignment sheets, a sub note, project planning guide, an IEP form, and much, much more! Less frequently used -- but always useful -- templates at this site include a birthday card, bingo cards, a book report bookmark, memo pad, thank-you note, and graph paper in a variety of sizes.

Microsoft Office Education Templates
If you have Microsoft Office, you'll find an extensive template collection in the Microsoft Office Teacher Tools. These easy-to-use modifiable templates include standard organizational forms, such as an award certificate, a field trip permission form, and a medication authorization form; helpful teacher tools, including a calendar, a grade book, a seating chart, and a syllabus; handy academic tools, such as graph paper, a conversion table, and an experiment design form; and even a few templates to ease you through indoor recess, such as a hangman game, a cryptogram, a word scramble, and a pep rally poster! You can download the templates at the download center referenced above by clicking MOCTteacher.exe. If you prefer, you can use the 21 classroom templates found at the online. This site also includes dividers for notebooks and manuals and a variety of test forms.

Forms and Testing
First-grade teacher Jill Perkins provides a number of useful -- and sometimes hard-to-find -- templates, including a weekly lesson plan, ABC flash cards, a handwriting practice page, a 100s chart, and a classroom grading aid. You will find most templates in both non-modifiable (PDF) and modifiable (Microsoft Word) formats. The site also includes templates for Dolch flash cards for first, second, and third grade.

PRINTABLE TEMPLATES

Many of the templates found at the sites mentioned in this section are PDF files. To view these files, you'll need Acrobat Reader, which you can download free from the Adobe Acrobat site.

Laura Candler's File Cabinet
North Carolina educator Laura Candler created this extensive selection of printable teacher resources, catalogued under easily accessed headings. Odds and Ends, for example, offers a classroom incident report form, an e-mail project permission form, a missing homework notification form, behavior modification tools, and much, much more. Graphic Organizers includes such commonly used organizers as a sequencing map, a KWL chart, and a Venn diagram. You will also find an assortment of student work sheets for all subject areas and for a variety of learning center activities.

Classroom Forms
Teachervision.com offers this assortment of PDF classroom organization forms. The selection includes assignment and attendance records, hall and bathroom passes, a class list, a homework collection sheet, a student information form, a student contract, and field trip preparation forms. In addition, the Teachervision.com Substitute Teacher Resources include forms for recording class schedules, rules, routines, and basic school information for substitute teachers. You will also find a substitute feedback form.

Printables and Worksheets
A to Z Teacher Stuff offers a variety of printable work sheets, including 100s grids, shape books, maps, a metric converter work sheet, and more. This is also the place to go for colorful printable center signs.

Teaching Extras for the Classroom
ABC Teach provides lots of printable teacher resources, including learning center signs, desktop name tags, hall passes, homework reminders, flash cards, assignment forms, thank-you notes, and more. All are attractive and colorful. The site is very slow to load, however. If a page takes too long to open, try clicking Stop in the navigation toolbar. Sometimes it speeds up the process!

School Forms Tool Kit
Family Education.com provides a bus change form, an authorization for dispensing medication form, a field trip permission form, and an all-purpose school note. These printable forms are designed for parents, but teachers can use them too!

SMALL SITES, SPECIALIZED TEMPLATES

The sites listed in this section contain only a few templates, but the ones they do provide can be hard to find, and, therefore, are worth their weight in gold to teachers who need them!

Planning Book #8 Template This two-page modifiable template replicates the layout of Squibb's Lesson Plan Book No. 8.
IEP Forms The Placer County Office of Education in Auburn, California, offers modifiable templates for IEP-related documents. The site includes a parent information request form, a form for recording IEP meeting notes, a student health development summary form, parents' rights forms, and a three-year evaluation plan form.
Special Education IEP Forms The Marin County (California) Office of Education provides both PC and Mac versions of modifiable IEP forms, including an assessment summary form, an individual goals and objectives form, and an annual review summary. The site includes directions on how to use the forms. .

Finally, if you are looking for printable (but not modifiable!) outline maps to use with your students, check out Blank and Outline Maps from About.com, or Maps of U.S. States, Continents, and more from ABC Teach.

Two additional sites are worth mentioning, although they do not offer templates as such. They do, however, provide excellent examples of documents that teachers and schools might find useful. The Bellingham (Washington) Schools' Copyright Permission Letter clearly demonstrates the elements such a letter should contain. Copy and paste the information to a new document to create your own letter. You may also use the Spartanburg (South Carolina) School District's WebQuest Template to create your own WebQuest template. The site includes extensive directions for creating WebQuests

Updated 8/04 - GGrinnell