Monday, October 6, 2014

New, Improved Semester Plans

I am in the process of developing new and improved semester plans. I will copy your old info into your new plan so you do not have to. When your plan is ready, I will place a link to your new plan on the page your old plan used to occupy and send you an invite.

I will go over the new plans at our next meeting. 

Here is a preview:

Plans are now Google Doc Spreadsheets (similar to Excel) with multiple tabs, rather than Google Documents (similar to Word).

Your plans now have drop down menus for the learning units. No more pulling out the learning units handout!

Each Semester Plan is geared to individual student grade level with the appropriate learning units.




K-5 Semester Plans have the whole year on one sheet because courses in K-5 rarely change during the course of the year.


6-12 Semester Plans are broken up into semesters, as middle school and high school often have semester length courses.







Semester plans now include tabs for LP progress recording. (No more LP progress grades through the form on the Blog). The Texts/Materials and Planned Assignments are auto filled from the semester plan. By default, the Completed Assignments section is auto filled from the planned assignment box. You will change this if you made adjustments to your plan. There is a drop down menu for letter grades, basic progress notes, and a place for further notes about each subject.




You should start seeing your updated semester plans this week. Feel free to explore and update them.  Go ahead and fill in info for LP1 and LP2 progress tabs if you feel comfortable.

Please let me know if you have any questions!