Learning Genie has designed a Weekly Planning feature, which enables teachers to:
- Create and download the digital weekly planner
- Incorporate age-appropriate and developmentally-aligned lesson plan activities from our extensive Lesson Library, or use your own lesson content with links.
- Plan group and individualized lessons linked to assessment and child development insights.
- Reflectively plan weekly and individual lessons to effectively implement designed lesson plans for the upcoming week.
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Creating a Weekly Planner
1. To create a weekly planner, go to Reflective Planning > Weekly Planning, and click the “Create” button to begin your journey.
If you have utilized this feature, simply locate the "Create" button in the upper-right corner of the page.
2. Fill in the required information for your weekly planner:
- If you are managing more than one site and classroom, you can select the site and class you'll be creating the weekly planner for in this field (1)
- Select the week (2) and date (3) for the planner
- Type in the theme for your planner (4)
- Type in your goals for the week (5)
3. On the cells, you may choose to (1) type your activity, (2) search pre-made lessons from the lesson library, (3) add third-party lessons with links, or (4) create a new lesson from scratch.
3.1 Type in your activity/lesson by clicking on the "Add Activity" field.
3.2 Search pre-made lesson plans from the lesson library by clicking on "Search Lesson Library".
- You may choose from public lessons, agency-wide lessons, your own creations, and your favorite lessons.
- You can search by lesson name, domain, or theme by typing on the search bar.
- You can also preview a lesson before selecting it.
3.3 Add your own lesson content with links by clicking "Add Third-party Lesson". Name your lesson activity, then type/paste a link to integrate your content seamlessly.
3.4 Create a new lesson from scratch by clicking "Create a New Lesson".
4. Once you select a lesson, the corresponding measures will automatically be populated in the field. However, if you have manually typed in an activity or added a third-party lesson, you will need to manually select the measures as well.
5. Select the students who will participate in the activity. Just hover your cursor over the lesson you added to reveal the options and click on "Add Children".
6. Once you've completed your planner, click on "Submit for Approval" to submit it for review. Or if you are still working on it and want to complete it later, click on "Save as Draft".
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What can you do upon the approval of a weekly planner?
- Add weekly reflections on the implementation of designed lessons and possible plans.
- Besides the weekly reflection, you can add lesson reflections (e.g. lesson reflection, child development reflection) now.
- To add lesson reflections, click the “Add Reflection” button.
- Complete the “Lesson Reflection” and “Child Development Reflection”, and click the “Save” button.
- You can also view the observation notes within this weekly planner and past reflections.
- The system automatically generates an observation note draft for each lesson in the weekly planner.
- To view the observation drafts, go to “Portfolio”, then click the “Past Incompleted Draft” tab.
- You can add an observation note as needed.
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TIPS!
- You can customize weekly planners based on the classroom data in the sidebar.
In the past, you can only view your classroom data under “Child Development Insights”. Now, you can access these data while creating a weekly planner, which is more convenient.
- You can download a copy of your weekly planner.
Click on the Print/Download button to download your weekly planner.
- You can view a history of all the weekly planners you have created or submitted under the main page of the "Weekly Planner List" tab.
To know if your weekly planners have been approved or not, check the “Status” column (e.g., approved, revise, pending).
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Never worry about submitting a weekly planner by accident. You are able to recall submitted weekly planners.
- Click on the entry for the unwanted planner.
- Then, click the “Recall” button at the top.
If you have any questions, you can contact our Learning-Genie Helpdesk.
help@learning-genie.com
760-576-4822