You must know a little about me to understand my planning. I have six students to keep track of and I have to use the KISS system to make things work for me. Below is a pic of what I use for planning. One simple page per week. Three of my students are in the same History and Science program so I can share those categories for them. Nathan, my 9th grade student, works independently but I list daily reminders on my plan for both of us. Isaac and David, my kindergarten and preschool students each have a row of squares to help me stay on track with their work. I hope you can tell what I'm talking about from the photo. On the left hand is the list of subjects. I, D, and N stand for Isaac, David and Nathan.
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| I also list our goals for the month at the top of my page and highlight any notes to myself(like remember Bible memorization) at the bottom. |
Each Friday I pull out all of my teacher guides and list what needs to be done on the next week's page.
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| I keep my guides to the right of my desk. In the morning I make a huge pile on my desk and then get to slowly clear it off again. |
As we finish the work each day I mark it off with a highlighter so I'm not constantly rereading things we have already finished. I like to use the highlighter because some of the items will go on the next week's list and it is easy to see what they were when I do my planning. Oh, one more section I include is a row for prep work. I list what needs to be printed for the next day so I don't have to do a bunch of printing and prepping on the weekend. I think I spend about 15 minutes a week planning out the next week. I only plan one week at a time in case someone gets sick or something comes up and we can't complete all of our lessons that week. If I planned further ahead I would have to redo the planning pages.
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| I list the subject in the margin instead of the first square so I can save the last square for extra notes, if needed. |
So that is my simple one planner page for six students method. I hope you found it helpful or at least I gave you an idea or two.
