Organization often depends on the type of tasks used and the space provided for storage. For students who primarily work on worksheet tasks, a pocket organizer can be used to organize and label worksheets.
Wooden cubbies are great for providing individual slots for each task whether you are using taskboxes or file folders.
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| Robbie Whorton Trotwood-Madison High School, Trotwood |
When open storage is not in use, we suggest covering it to reduce visual clutter.
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| Taylor Ruef Stevenson Elementary, Mad River |
When organizing taskboxes it is helpful to have a labeling system. Some teams use symbols to label their taskboxes including Ellison cut outs, Boardmaker symbols, or other picture icons.
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| Jamie Zimmer Kettering Middle School, Kettering |
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| Brittany Sword Valley Elementary, Beavercreek |
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| Marissa Calhoun Fairbrook Elementary, Beavercreek |
Another common labeling system is numbers. In this first example, the teacher uses the same 12 bins and switches out tasks each week. This is a great space saver!
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| Kate Tipple Helke Elementary, Vandalia |
This classroom numbers their taskboxes 1-5 to make deciding on the order of presenting tasks to students easier.
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| Kelly Krause Horace Mann Elementary, Springfield |
Other teams decide to take pictures of the actual task to use for the label. This helps quickly identify what is task is in the box and provides a visual of what the task should look like when set up.
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| Carrie Prickett Jane Chance Elementary, Miamisburg |
These pictures incorporate color-coding to give additional information about the type of task and make sorting easier.
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| Angie Kleinhans Stebbins High School, Mad River |
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| Jamie Minnish Prass Elementary, Kettering |
Once a labeling system is put into place, many teams use the labels when assigning which tasks students should complete. In this system, they use symbols, letters, and numbers to label taskboxes and then present the assigned tasks to students either through a To Do-Finished format or First-Then board.
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| Lindsey Woods Fairborn Primary, Fairborn |
This team divides students into two groups based on common goals/ability levels and then the assignment is given to each group. Classroom staff sets up the assigned taskboxes using the visual reminder.
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| Beth Young Snyder Park Elementary, Springfield |
When assigning work, these classrooms use picture symbols which correspond with the taskbox labels and place the symbols on the student's work strip schedule.
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| Brittany Sword Valley Elementary, Beavercreek |
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| Marissa Calhoun Fairbrook Elementary, Beavercreek |
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| Emily Ottmar Stevenson Elementary, Mad River |
For more information on using taskboxes and structured work systems check out our other blog posts:
Or ideas for creating taskboxes check out these posts:
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