Class period schedule (free printable for students)

About this sheet

In the first weeks of middle or high school, a student's whole day depends on remembering where to be at 10:05. A schedule card in the binder helps, and one the student wrote out themselves helps more. This sheet is a plain table with a numbered row for each period and four columns, and nothing is filled in, so it works for any bell schedule and any school. Edit the period names if your school uses blocks or letters, and add a row for advisory, lunch or homeroom. Younger students on a rotation can use it as a take-home sheet for their special classes.

Grades: 6 to 12. Best in: August, September, January.

How to use it

1. Type the period names your school uses, one per line: Period 1, Period 2 and so on, with Lunch where it falls.
2. Print a class set and have students copy their own schedule from the office printout in the first week.
3. Students keep the card in the front of a binder, and a spare goes home on the refrigerator.

Five ideas for class

1. Do the copying as an activity in the first class meeting. Students who write their schedule out learn it faster than those who are handed a printout.
2. Ask students to color-code the class names, then use the same colors on their binders and folders so the right one is always easy to find.
3. Add a second card for the other half of a rotation, labeled A and B, so students with an alternating timetable have both in one place.
4. Use it with families during the first open house, and ask them to write the teacher’s email beside each class name.
5. Keep a stack at the front of the room for the student who loses theirs in week two. It will happen.

Related

• Weekly class schedule
• Assignment tracker
• Homework planner