You may know our flagship Teacher Planners, but did you know we also create an Undated Teacher Planner? Our Undated Planners have all the same content as our Teacher Planner, with curriculum planning, organisation, records, and pages about your professional development. The difference is, the weekly and monthly plans have no dates listed, or even days of the week. This means it is super flexible and can work for many different teaching and school roles, like part time teachers. If you don’t work 5 days a week, you might feel it’s not necessary to use a dated planner since you won’t use all the days. This way, your planner can be tailored to suit your teaching schedule – let’s look at a couple of examples!
Custom days of the week
Since the top of each day has no dates or days, you can customise it to your needs by writing in the days that you’ll be working. If you work flexibly with a Week 1 and Week 2 schedule, you can add in different days each week. If your role is likely to change midway through the year, maybe you are working as maternity cover or there’ll be a staff change midway through the year, you’ll be able to adjust your planner. Plus, it’s great for any teachers who work a Sunday – Thursday week, like those who work in the UAE.
Extra To Do lists & notes
If you’re not using all of the columns for days of the week, that gives you lots more space to utilise for detailed notes and To Do lists. In our example below, they’ve used the right hand page for extra list space. This way, they can write out their weekly planning tasks in lots of detail, and use the To Do list box for non-planning tasks. You could also use this space to make notes on what your partner teacher is doing, what you need to know, and what you should take responsibility for.
Decorate
There are lots of ways to decorate an undated planner, and we really encourage you to use it flexibly in a way that works for your role as a part time teacher. Our example uses washi tape to show lunch break, which breaks the day up into two clear sessions. This could change depending on your school, your daily schedule, or your lunch duties. They’ve used colour coordinated highlighting to show the different lessons, and stickers to mark out special events like Pancake Day and non-contact time.
Using groups
In Tues-Fri example above, the part time teacher is in charge of making sure all of the students read throughout the week, so she’s assigned a different reading group for each day. The Undated Planner, just like the Teacher Planner, has a records section at the back where the teacher can note down what all of the different groups are, so when it’s time to read they can check here for reference and find the right children to read with. These examples are from the weekly pages, but there are lots of other pages throughout the planner that are ideal for organising your curriculum and your teaching!
To find out exactly what’s in the Undated Teacher Planner, take a look at the video below.
