Last year it was in the Summer term that I finally got my act together and began using more cloud based computing and relying less and less on my memory stick. This year has started with barely a shred of paper in sight and I actually do not know where my memory stick is. I have been pleased to see that Google Docs is beginning to deal with imported Word files containing tables much better and so in this post I share a couple that I use.
The links I have provided to the docs should give you access to your own copy – what you see will be yours and not a shared or published version. If you have problems with the link I have added another link where the document is currently published online.
Those of you in the English primary schools will appreciate the fact that we have new literacy and numeracy frameworks to work with and this is an example of a weekly literacy planning document that you could use.
You will of course have to remove the information that doesn’t apply and it is currently filled with a few days of planning from last week just to illustrate how it is used- this is the general style of planning we do for a week.
I like the fact that a digital document that remains as such can take advatage of the links that you can add. Once it is printed those links are dead.
Get your copy – Weekly literacy plan. If you have trouble with link you can view the document here.
Our timetable changes every week, as well as we accomodate different things going on in school we deal with staff absence, courses etc. Rather than use an online calendar we use a simple weekly timetable that outlines what we are doing – this year we have also added links from the subjects to their respective planning documents too.
Get your copy – Weekly timetable. If you have trouble with link you can view the document here.
Rick my teaching colleague and I are using Google Docs to organise, author and share our planning for this year and it is already proving useful as we make changes during the week to planning. But the person you share it with will of course always have access to the most recent copy.I look forward to the further development of the template resource currently in it’s infancy within Google Docs so that I can make a template from my Docs home screen and generate further copies from that.
I hope you may find some of the Docs useful – let me know if they are and if you have any of your own to share.
I’ve just started putting my unit planners online through google docs (published), and then linking them to the teacher wiki. I hadn’t thought of using google docs to plan weekly, but then, I’m not sure it’s up to it yet. I can see how that would help you in a team teaching situation. At the moment there isn’t a teaching planner out there (well, for free!) that can stack up to the job. One day soon, no doubt, it will appear…
Thanks for the post.
Right now, my fiance and I are working on something similar, but we’re also putting all of the worksheets in google docs too so that we can link from the weekly timetable to the individual lesson and then deeper to the individual handouts and homeworks. That way, a lot of the work can be reused from year to year even if the weekly sheets differ.
Do you do Morning Meeting? Is that what “circle time” is?
Great idea to use Google Docs for lesson plans.
I end up typing on my lap top, putting on flashdrive – but I have to save it as a .pdf because school computers don’t have Office 2007 – then editing on a school computer, saving it as an office 2003 .doc and then have to … you get the point.
Google Docs may help simplify things. Plus, the links are available from anywhere.
Do you let your kids and parents access your lesson plans?
Like Karen, “I have never thought of using Googledocs like that!”
But why don’t you use Google Calendar ?
Great idea! I have never thought of using Googledocs like that! I am going to give it a go!!!