Do you search for a teacher planner every year?
I don't. Well let me start by saying I use to but then I stopped.
Year after year, I would hunt for the perfect planner to use as my day book and year after year I would spend way too much time filling it out.
I found that I was writing the same things over and over again each day/week because they were things that were part of our routine. This was wasting too much of my time after school so I needed to find a better way to plan my days.
In our school district, we are responsible for writing a day plan for when we have a substitute teacher. This is why I constantly had to write out routines and procedures.
If your luck is like mine you always get sick at night/early morning when you are not at school. This means that I had to always be prepared for a substitute in my classroom. There was no way I want to write up a detailed day plan when I am sick.
I no longer have to do this and I no longer have to write a ton in my daybook when I am planning.
How You Ask?
My daybook is put in a binder with photocopies of my day plan template!!
I still want the binder to look nice so I print off a fancy cover and just slide it into the front of the binder and voila....fancy!
What My Plan Looks LikeAt the beginning of the year, once we get our schedules set, I type a detailed plan (in Word) for each day of the week. I add any routines and procedures that another teacher would need to know about our day and what we do.
I leave spaces for me to write what I am doing for each subject for that day but ALL the procedures/routines are typed.
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I no longer need to do this throughout the year and if someone comes in to teach for me most things are ready.
Weekly Schedule
At the very front of the binder I also keep a weekly schedule so that someone can see very quickly what is coming up for the week and how the subjects are scheduled.
I do not know if any substitute teachers actually use it but it is there if they want it.
The Tabs
I keep most things I need right in my binder in different sections.
Day Plans: Just what it says. This is where all my day plan pages go.
TTOC Info: We call our substitute teachers Teachers Teaching On Call (TTOC for short) so any information they may need goes here. I have seating plans, class lists, any behaviour plans I may have for students, helpful information about the class, etc.
Schedules: You guessed it. All my schedules (gym, music, library, supervision, learning assistance...) go here for my reference or a TTOC's needs. I also keep an extra copy of my daybook plans here just in case I am away and more are needed. My year overviews are also kept in this section so I know where to find it when I need it.
Staff Meetings: This is where I keep all staff meeting minutes and any papers we get. I use to keep them in my filing cabinet but I find them way quicker to access here if I need dates or information that came up at a meeting.
Stuff: Any other random stuff I may want handy goes here. I am always surprised at the end of the year what ends up in this section. 😂
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