Reddit reviews Smead Desk File/Sorter, Daily (1-31), 31 Dividers, Letter Size, Blue (89294)
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Desktop/file sorters keep paperwork neatly categorized for follow-up actionHeavyweight dividers are bound book-style so it’s easy to open to the desired section. Each section expands to 1-3/8". Accordion fold is tape reinforced.Contains 31 dividers with daily (1-31) indexing31 dividers with daily (1-31) indexing. Each section expands to 1-3/8" Divider tabs are poly reinforced to withstand heavy use. Holes in dividers help locate papers remaining in file.Includes one letter size (9-7/8" W x 11-3/4" H) desk file/sorter with daily indexingProudly made in the USA and is SFI Sourcing Certified. Contains 35% recycled content, 10% post-consumer material (cover) and 10% recycled content, 10% post-consumer material (dividers).
I teach 4th grade. Every one of my students receives a number at the start of the year based upon the alphabetical order of their last names. I will use this number to assign them cubbies, job rotations, line order if necessary, and on popsicle sticks for random assignment of demonstrations/recitations/presentations etc.
I have subject specific turn-in bins. Students will either put finished work (HW) there themselves or I might collect the entire class's work myself (CW, tests) and put it in the box until the end of the day.
I keep two vertical accordion folders. (the ones with real bottoms that open as a rectangle, not a V.) One is for ungraded work and each pocket is a different assignment. At the end of each day I clear out the boxes. This helps me catch late work. If a student turns something in late I stamp it (with the pocket watch bunny from Alice in Wonderland) late and it goes right into its pocket with the rest. I keep the key at the front of the pocket, or sometimes just keep all of my recent keys at the very front before the first pocket. I don't buy a huge folder because if I'm running out of room, that means I better get on with it and quit putting that work aside.
Then during a prep period or at home, I will take it out and grade it. Once it's been marked it goes into the second accordion folder.
When I'm ready to enter the grades into the gradebook, they leave the second accordian folder, I cycle through and put numbers into the computer and file them away using [this desktop paper organizer. ](Smead Desk File/Sorter, Daily... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00658PGKU?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share). Since each student has a number, I can just feed each paper into its appropriate slot in the folder. It doesn't take me long at all to memorize which student is which number. It's a mobile mailbox system.
It is so satisfying to see that blue folder swell by Sunday afternoon. It means I won't have to play catch-up for at least another week. If it's fat by Friday I get a worry-free weekend.
I can't stress how much this single folder has improved my ability to turn work around in a timely manner. I have a very small classroom without any room for a mailbox system so I used to be walking back and forth while students were at specials etc distributing graded work to their desks. I don't like having students pass others' work out to allow them that privacy.
Now I can "pass back" work while sitting in front of my tv at home filing away graded work into the folder and when I get to school I take exactly one trip around my classroom and deliver graded work to each desk exactly once.
So that parents can keep a better eye on whether their children are appropriately bringing work home (instead of "losing it" in the recycling bin when I'm not looking) I try to pass back 1 week of graded materials every Monday. This is important because parents don't have access to individual assignment grades online.
This system means what goes with me in my backpack home everyday are the exact same items: the three folders, my hobonichi, my laptop, my stamps. I am very absentminded (and don't have access to our building after hours or on weekends because we share the facilities) so if I didn't make things this organized it would be a disaster. I will forget and lose things left and right.
(I also went and bought my own binder clips. Small ones, big ones. I find my work never stayed securely organized when I used paper clips.)