Today I'm going to break down my planning process for you and show you the layout of all my documents.
This then leads me to my term planner. I keep my term planner general so that I can get to school and complete diagnostic assessments to see what level to teach each topics.
The information in this document comes from the curriculum. I pick out things that I believe should be covered in Term 1 which are usually the simpler things or quickest to teach. You will notice the planner shown about explicitly links to NAPLAN. I teach to the curriculum not NAPLAN but still need to incorporate it into my planning. This includes covering the full scope of maths concepts and strategies for completing tests.
Read my post on My NAPLAN Plan of Attack
When doing a term planner I like to have a theme that I can link to. I only pick the theme for term 1 after that students get to pick by brainstorming and then voting.
At the bottom of the planner you will see topics that I have a separate detailed planner for. I only do these types of planners for text types and areas other than maths and english.
I then use all these documents to do my weekly planner which I do in the second last DOTT session the week before (I do lesson prep such as photocopying in the last). I copy and paste from the unit planners and then look at the term planner for the rest.
I store the term planner on the first page of an A4 display file followed by each of the weekly timetables. In the back of the display file I have the curriculum checklists. The unit plans stay together with all their lesson resources in a lever arch file as I do not need to refer to them much once all the photocopying is done.
My timetable follows the same pattern most week which helps make planning quicker.
Good luck with your planning this year!
Love your blog, thanks for sharing your planning process! Very useful step-by-step, especially for teachers still getting their heads around planning and the Aust curriculum. I was wondering - how do you go about planning Maths if you don't fill in one of your planners? Do you follow a set whole-school program instead? Also, I would love to hear how you plan and assess The Arts if you are able to do a blog post sometime!
ReplyDeleteHi, Thank you so much for reading and commenting :-)
DeleteFor maths I take the weekly topic from the term planner and plan it out on a weekly basis. I look at the topic combined with the curriculum description/s for that topic to work out what to cover and then come up with activities to address that.I like to do as many hands on activities as possible and avoid worksheets.
We have Visual Art and Music specialists at our school so I don't need to assess the Arts but have previously done Drama that I might be able to do a blog post on sometimes.
Thanks again,
Thank YOU for sharing your planning! Please advise how I plan for teaching History from PP - Yr 6.
ReplyDeleteLove the planning ideas - if you were to put your planning docs on TPT people would buy them. I know I would!!
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DeleteIf you want just the templates I have them available for free here: http://mrsamy123.blogspot.com.au/2016/12/planning-templatse.html
Otherwise I sell many unit planner for different grade levels here:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Mrs-Amy123
You are amazing. I love structure in my planning and accountable sequencing. You tick all the boxes. ACARA should reward you.
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