Labeling and Tabbing

Sorting out files is a necessity for us, teachers. Right? Compiling documents grouped by MIS's and by reports. During my first two years in service, my reports were in mess. Every time I have a report, I place it in whatever folder I see. The other day, there was other report and inserted it in whatever folder was on my table. The nightmare of that, is finding those reports whenever the data should be submitted in a rush. Where to find? Where to find? What folder was that? What? What? Halughugin ang mahiwagang baul.

So, that is my dilemma.

One day, it was not Thursday but I suddenly had a throwback moment in my college years. I remember, every Accreditation period  I was always included to stay overnight at the office of Engineering, Arts and Sciences Department before -- compiling, sorting all reports and documents needed for the said accreditation of our course, Bachelor of Arts in Communication. We made tabbing, labeling, putting A.1.1 leaf on pages of every compiled documents. Pulling out papers from one folder then putting in to another.

Then, it hit me!

What?! How on earth haven't I thought of that?! Then, it was like a lighted bulb inside my sleeping head.

I told myself, "That's what I'm going to do. Sort out my files!"

So, I started from ground zero. 

Folder Labels

This is for the cover of the folders.

First, I listed down all the reports for every MIS needed in a sheet of paper: Curriculum MIS, Learner's MIS, Teacher's MIS, Community MIS, Physical Facilities MIS, and Research and Development MIS. Just to see how many folders do I really need and what are the specific names of the folders.

Next, I encoded all those report titles, still grouped by MIS, in Microsoft Publisher (but can also be done in Microsoft Word). Each MIS is designed with specific border design for easy recognition like which MIS is MIS; and which folder is for this and that MIS. 

And of course to put some life and color to the folders. ☺

Then, after encoding all the reports for every MIS. I printed it out. Cut out the titles. Pasted it on the folder cover.

Below are the soft copies of the folder labels I made.

• Teacher's MIS
• Learner's MIS
• Curriculum MIS
• Community MIS
• Physical Facilities MIS
• Research and Development MIS

You may change the border designs if you desire. 

Tabbing (MIS reports)

This is placed on the right side of the folder.  So, it will be easy to scan the folders even in side view. The content of this is the same with all in the Folder labels you see above. I encoded them but in different format to be put on the side part of the folder purposely. Some of us would want to organize our folders horizontally. This tabbing will surely be of good help.

I printed it. Cut them all out. Put scotch tape on top, so it won't get dusty. Pasted it on the side of the folder. Just like how you see on the image.

If you want the soft copy, you may get it here.

Leafing

This is for sorting the content in every folder. See the image below.

School Year Title Page

I encoded school year title in a whole blank document.  This is to regroup the data by school year in every report folder. This is the soft copy.

Sidebar Folder Title (School Year)

I encoded school year in a leaf tab format. To be pasted on the side of the school year title page. So that, we can identify which school year for a specific report are we looking for. To change the school year in the MS Publisher, go to Home > Editing > Replace. 

Alphabet Leaf

Well, this is for the different sub-reports inside a report. Example, in Learners' MIS, we have PHIL-IRI/Reading Profile folder. Inside the PHIL-IRI folder has Oral Reading and Silent Reading sub-reports. For easy tracking, we may put A for Oral Reading then B for Silent Reading. 

Well, this is really time consuming. All of these are actually. But I don't bother thinking of the hardship. I know it will make my school life more easier. 

Glory to be to God!

Reading Materials in Filipino

Cover Page
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 3
Activity 4
Activity 5
Activity 6-A
Activity 6-B
Activity 7-A
Activity 7-B
Activity 8
Activity 9
Activity 10

AB-IB-OB and AD-ID-OD
AG-UG and AK-UK
AL-UL and AM-UM
AN-UN and ANG-UNG
AP-OP, AR-UR, and AS-US
AT-UT and AY-OY

Basic Math Operations RTP Tarps

As we all know, teaching our learners the basic math is quite difficult. First, we need to teach them the concepts of adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing through the use of pictures, drawings, popsicle sticks, and real objects. Every class we handle means a new way of discovering each learner's learning abilities. Therefore, we also need to adjust on the level where they can understand the lesson.

Below are the JPEG-format images of the ready-to-print(RTP) tarpaulins. Feel free to download. ☺

Basic Mathematics Operation (3 ft. x 2 ft.)
Cover Page
Addition Facts
Subtraction Facts
Multiplication Facts
Division Facts

Hello there!

I'm sorry if it takes me a while to update my posts. I'm currently on the process of uploading all the images and making drafts and links of my posts before I finally publish it here.☺Anytime, soon! You'll see it all posted. Thank you for your patience.

Chao! ☺❤

The Fruit of My Labor!

I've been in teaching profession for 2 years and 8 months now. My class needs a lot of remediation; a lot of reading materials to use to enhance their reading abilities. And writing them all in sheets of manila paper is not quite a good idea for me, since my hand writing is not as neat as it should be. These thin sheets of paper tear up and get wet easily. And when that nightmare happens -- cutting, folding, and writing them all over is too laborious. *hands up with white flag* That's why I decided to study how to layout tarpaulin in Microsoft Publisher and started to encode English, Filipino, and Mathematics remediation materials available. Yes, it is stressful, too. But knowing the length of time that I'm going to use them, keeps me going.

I am free to decide how I want the tarps to look like. I can change the layout whenever I want. I am the boss. At the same time, I am exploring how it is done. Applying the principles of: Learn by doing and patience is virtue.

I decided to take a photo with it posted on the board. :) Just the size of one half sheet of  manila paper.

What I encoded were my mother's reading materials who has been teaching Grade 2 for over two decades now. Her materials were also adapted from Mr. Paat. He is a retired principal in our district, who was committed in teaching children to read with his  reading technique. She revised his technique -- her way to help her learners to read.

Actually, I posted the Remedial Reading in Filipino and English in DepEd Tambayan Facebook group page last year. There was a technical error in the posted pictures. It was too late that I found out they weren't set up in 2 feet by 3 feet size. I'm terribly sorry. My mistake. But now, I had it corrected.

I set up the following remediation materials in 2 feet by 3 feet sizes:

Remedial Reading in English	4 pieces
Remedial Reading in Filipino	18 pieces
Writing Numbers in Words	4 pieces
Basic Math Operations	5 pieces

A total of 31 pieces. If I had it layout in the printing shops that would cost me additional fees. Since I gave it to them ready-to-print, I spent sixty pesos (P60.00) only per 2 ft. x 3 ft. tarp since it is a buckle. Multiply it by 31. I spent one thousand eight hundred sixty pesos (P1,860.00) only for the 31 tarpaulins. It might be 4 digits but lesser than the actual money to be spent. Economical, isn't it? *smiling* It took me few months to finish encoding them all. It is not easy, in fact, I often have lack of sleep. It is time-consuming. But, it is worth it.

Anytime soon I am going to post in this blog the ready-to-print-JPEG-format soft copies of these materials for anyone who is interested to have a long-term use of reading materials -- for free. I hope this will help other teachers out there, too.