To plan your week on the platform you don't need to do anything different from what you were already doing. Each educator can plan according to their practice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
How to make a weekly plan
You can plan by:
- Blocks: plan divided between the morning block and the afternoon block, for example.
- In detail: plan activity by activity, hour by hour
To make your Plan you need to:
Step 1 - Click on the "Pencil" icon
Step 2 - Choose "Planning"
Step 3 - Select your group
Step 4 - Click on the green button "Add Activity".
Step 5 - Write the title of your activity
Step 6 - Add a description of the activity (optional)
Step 7 - Choose the date and start/end times of the activity
Step 8 - Choose if the activity is only for the day that is selected or if you want it to repeat several days. Press the blank square in front of the days of the week you want to select
Step 9 - Click "Save" at the top of the page
Step 10 - Press "Save" again for all changes to be saved.
Articulate your plan with curriculum parameters
The platform allows you to choose the curriculum parameters according to what you have observed, in order to understand where the interests and needs of the group lie.
Thus, you can define the educational intentionality of the plan.
To select the Curricula Parameters to be added to the Plan you have to:
Step 1 - Select the "Curriculum Parameters" icon
Step 2 - Analyse the observed parameters and define the parameters to observe that week.
Sharing with parents
You can share your plan whenever you want. For that you need to:
Step 1 - Access the desired plan
Step 2 - Select "Yes" on the option parents can see and Save on the green button
Copy the plan to other weeks
A tip to optimise your work is to make use of the "copy" functionality in the plan.
Step 1 - In your week plan, select the button with the three dots in the top blue. Select the option "make a copy".
Step 2 - In the vertical column, choose the week to which you want to copy the plan and select the "next" button on the top right
Step 3 - Now that your plan is copied into the week you have chosen, don't forget to save it before continuing with your changes
Assess the Plan
Every week you can assess and make observations on how the classroom activities went. To reflect on your plan, you can:
Step 1 - In the week's plan, select the button with three dots at the top blue. Select the option "Assess".
Step 2 - Add the title "Weekly Assessment"
Step 3 - Upload the photo and video records you have made of the various activities
Step 4 - Describe how these activities happened, what the children did and said
Step 5 - When you assess the plan, the curriculum tags you have set will be copied into the register. You can always add other that have emerged during the activities.
Step 6 - Add the "Plan Assess" Category
Step 7 - Save all your work
How to do a monthly Plan
Monthly plan can be done as a observation
Step 1 - Create a observation for your classroom
Step 2 - Put as a title "plan" and in the description define the activities for that month
Step 3 - Add the curricular tags and the "Plan" category
Sharing the Plan with the parents
Once you have built your plan you can share it with the families in your classroom at any time. To do so, simply choose "Yes" in the option "Parents can see".
How to copy a Plan for the next month
You can copy the information of the activities from one month to the next.
Step 1 - In the plan you want to copy, select the 3 vertical buttons in the blue bar
Step 2 - Select "make a copy" option
Step 3 - Choose your group
Step 4 - Choose the "next" button
Step 5 - Change the title and define new activities
Step 6 - Change your pedagogical intention and set new objectives for the planning. Save everything by selecting the save button in the bottom right corner
Assess the Plan
To assess your monthly plan you just need to make a copy as mentioned above. Then you can:
Step 1 - Add the title "Monthly Assessment"
Step 2 - Upload the photo and video records you have made of the various activities
Step 3 - Describe how these activities happened, what the children did and said
Step 4 - When you assess the plan, the curriculum tags you have set will be copied into the register. You can always add other that have emerged during the activities.
Step 5 - Add the "Monthly Plan Assess" Category
Step 6 - Save all your work