To write a blog about planning less so you can teach more means I must not waste your time explaining how to plan less, so I will be brief.
The Anders Lesson Organizers are designed for you to write up to 32 lines of activities, which is typically two-four weeks of lesson plans. Imagine a page of 32 activities, date when you want to start that activity and spend as much time as you want on it. Date when you complete it. It is a very easy plan for anyone to see exactly where you are on your plan. This saves you time because you don't have to rewrite in the M-F boxes again the following week if you didn't finish everything. Huge timesaver.
2. The Anders Lesson Organizers have a two page layout with 32 lines for you to write your standards alongside your lesson plan description. This is documentation of your teaching activities aligning with your standards on the same line. Grades are on right of the two page layout if you choose Organizer two, four or five. This means your grade book can be on the same page as your lesson plan description and standards. This organizes two or three documentation data points in the same place. Huge timesaver.
3. Planning in a global way, planning one subject at a time for up to four weeks, allows you to lay out all of your materials and plan what you want your students to learn. You don't have to think about when you are doing each activity just what you are going to teach for two to four weeks. You can also place all of your materials into a magazine file or box that includes everything you are going to need for that month or so of plans. There is a place to write that in your planner for a substitute where these materials are. Huge time saver.
4. Once you have written all of your plans, simply place a clip or something similar on the subject you are needing to write a lesson plan for, and you are ahead of all of your planning, never needing to sweat writing all of your lesson plans every week. You are likely sitting down and writing one subject that is due a week, for example. Huge time saver.
5. Never rewriting a plan because you can write sequentially, dating when you start and finish, means never rewriting anything for the following week, ever. Huge time saver.
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