Doing some research on the value (as we all know it) of collaborative planning between classroom teachers and library media specialists. I wanted to create a common planning document that I would print out into poster size, bring to our weekly professional learning, and have each academic area teachers, CTAE, fine arts, and PE add their plans for the year. This will serve TWO functions --
1. If I know what everyone is teaching and when, I can better meet their informational needs; and
2. Maybe someone might look at the planning document and realize it would be better to teach curriculum standard Q while someone else is teaching curriculum standard N. Always be intentional!
I created the document as a calendar of sorts because I also wanted to include national celebrations and holidays to be helpful in planning. Here's the document I came up with. Feel free to use it. I created it in Canva -- super awesome (FREE) graphic design website -- and here's the link to the file.
Here's the embedded copy of the file:
August Planning Sheet by Heather Morin
Heather, you had me at "intentional"! :) Love the chance for contents to see cross-curricular connections!
ReplyDeleteHa! I think it'll be a pretty neat planning session. Everyone is going to write their plans on sticky notes and then stick them on the month where they plan to teach them. When everyone has added their plans, we'll all go back and look at what's being taught when and decide if there's a more effective time to teach the different lessons/units. Since they're on sticky notes, it make it easy to adjust. :-)
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