3. Most teachers-new and veteran-experience frustration with the ever changing all-school schedule, school assemblies, and other interrupters to their day. The first thing to remember is this: The only thing for sure in your day is that nothing for sure. Once you can accept that fact, you can begin to bring some order to your schedule. One helpful way to begin to organize is to open your weekly lesson plan book, and enter everything you know is already scheduled for the week in question. Include your own and your students’ lunch hours, your preparation hour, and any duty hours for which you are responsible. You should also incorporate any school assemblies or other upcoming activities that will impact your instructional planning. Once you’ve done this, you can plan the lessons for the upcoming week. If you teach one subject multiple times, it may be helpful to leave Friday’s lesson plan somewhat flexible. This will provide the time to adjust your teaching so that all classes will have reached approximately the same place in your lesson by the end of the week. For the classes that are on hold while other catch up, use this time to provide extra practice activities such as educational games or extension activities such as creative writing, art activities, or internet searches.