Our 2025-2026 Teacher Training Planner is here! The planner is launching today with new dates for the next school year and some beautiful cover options. Let’s have a closer look at the teacher training planner, talk about who it’s best for, and see what you’ll get inside.
Find the Teacher Training Planner here.
The Essentials
The Teacher Training Planner is dated August 2025 to July 2026.
There are 13 beautiful cover options, the same options as you get for our full Teacher Planner and many of our other products – so you can get lots of matching accessories like washi tape and notepads!
It’s designed to be hard-wearing so you can take it with you in your bag everyday, so it’s an A4 hardback planner with a sturdy metal spiral binding and metal corner protectors
There are 2 pockets inside, ideal for keeping an A5 notebook (which you can get in a matching design!) and any papers and printouts your need for your training
The planner has space for up to 3 placements, so you can stay on top of your placements and different schools all in one place.
Who is the planner for?
Our Teacher Training Planner is designed for anyone training to teach who will be using the DfE’s Teacher Standards – so teachers across the UK. We’ve made sure the planner starts in August to line up with the start of the school year in Scotland, too.
The planner is ideal for PGCE students, or students studying for QTS in other ways, like as part of their degree. It’s perfect for trainee teachers who will be doing multiple placements during the year.
If you’re spending most of the year based in one school, like if you training to teach through SCITT, we recommend using the full Teacher Planner along with the New to Teaching Essentials Booklet. This way, you’ll get the resources you need for spending all year in the same school, alongside lots of the helpful trainee content and Teacher Standards in the essentials booklet.
What does it provide for trainees?
Our Teacher Training Planner is designed with trainees in mind, so it shares many of the same features as the full Teacher Planner, but has lots of content that’s specifically focused on training to teach and managing that workload. So you have School Overview pages as well as Teacher Training Targets pages with space for up to 3 placements.
There’s more space built in for reflection, as this is a really key part of any teacher’s training. The weekly pages have a space for some weekly reflection notes, and your targets pages prompt you to reflect on your previous targets.
There are specific pages dedicated to tasks you’ll need to do as a trainee, like specific Mentor Meeting notes pages so you can keep all of these in one place. There’s also two kinds of Observation Notes pages: notes for when you’re being observed by others (that either your observer can use or you can use for your own reflection) and for when you are observing other teachers.
Your training provider may need these things written up in specific formats, but having these pages in your planner means that you can always make notes in the moment, as you’ll have your planner with you, and you can always find them to refer back to later when you come to write them up ‘officially’.
How else does it help you stay organised?
There are plenty of other pages to help you stay organised and plan your workload throughout the school year. There are lots of tracking pages so you can keep all the information you need, and always know where you can find it later – there are pages to track logins, lots of records, and useful resources as you hear about them.
The Teacher Training Planner has a whole year overview, and 12 double-page monthly calendar spreads, so you can plan your year and add in important dates. There are lots of planning pages for 6 different terms, including seating plans, timetables, and placements ideas pages, so you can approach each new term with a solid plan moving forward. There are also, of course, the weekly planning pages which are fully dated Monday to Friday from August 2025 to July 2026.
What are the weekly pages like?
The weekly plans are double page spreads with a vertical layout, running Monday to Friday with the date at the top of each day. Every day has 6 main blank boxes, as well as a smaller box at the top and bottom of each day. These are blank so they can be used really flexibly – you might want to use a different box for each lesson if you have a full teaching day, or you could assign different tasks to different boxes if you’re part teaching and part studying.
You could decide to use these boxes in whatever way suits you best – so you could use it to plan out your day ahead of time, and make notes on what you’ll be doing each lesson. Alternatively, you could fill out each box as you go with a reflection on how each lesson went. Your timetable will vary throughout the year, depending on how much teaching you’re doing, coursework deadlines, and planning responsibilities, so these boxes mean you can change how you use the planner week by week, depending on how your schedule looks.
You could even colour coordinate the planner – so highlight with one colour to show where you’ll be teaching, use another colour to mark lessons you observed, and a third colour to mark tasks that relate to your training, like meetings and admin time.
As well as the Monday to Friday plans, each weekly spread has a space for that week’s target and a space to write what went will this week. These are both key for practicing reflection, which is a big part of teacher training, and keeping your current target at the forefront of your mind so you can keep finding ways to show you are meeting it. There’s also a To Do list section for each week, where you can track your placement work as well as any trainee tasks you need to do, like writing up observation forms.
To get a full run through of what’s inside the Trainee Teacher Planner, take a look at the video below. Find the Trainee Teacher Planners here.
