My new planner has arrived!

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And I am ridiculously excited

Ordered from pirongs - it is my name on and everything

Such a saddo but I love my planners and like a new one to use in September!

Can you link to Idoceo for me please, noblegiraffe? I can’t see it on the App Store.

There’s a link to the App Store on the website www.idoceo.net/index.php I think it’s not coming up because it’s ipad only and you’re looking on your phone?

Yes, you’re right. I’ll look on iPad later. Thanks.

But noble, most of what you have listed are not benefits of planning on idocy.
All the seating plans stuff, exporting markbook stuff is not a planning thing. ( we actually use classcharts for seating plans but it has all the same functionality)
So basically the only benefits you list of planning on ideco are weekly view ( available on paper) and the ability to flick back by class ( not something i need to do that often because we are directed as to schedules)
The downsides to planning via iPad, rather than using it for all the other features are that you cannot have a quick peak at your planning notes ( perhaps for the next class in a six period day) whilst eg airplaying a video, checking seating plans without continual flipping, displaying something from kerboodle on the board.
I think for me those sort of issues mean the £20 odd spent each year is invaluable.

Have just ordered new planner from Pirongs. It has dates (swoon). I don't have to write the date in every day.

I love a new planner. And pens.

I love new planner time. I have bee on mat leave for a year and got a lovely frisson of excitement when I got the email about planner orders.

Mind you, I have yet to find one which actually meets all of my needs. I have a pastoral role with little classroom teaching so less need for lesson planning and marks and more for appointments and meeting notes. We also have an asymmetric week and period times which are at odd times and don’t land on hours.

For years o have used a pairings day to view A5 alongside a notepad which I write page numbers on. The diary keeps the bare minimum of what is happening when and a page number written next to it. The page number refers to the notepad where I have more detail for complex lesson plans or meeting minutes.

I also have colour coding -

Purple = intended lesson
Pink = what actually happened in the lesson
Green = pastoral appointments in school
Orange = pastoral appointments out of school

It was CHAOS when I lost my pencil case

I don’t use AirPlay, I’ve got a desktop. My planning notes are along the lines of ‘add/subtract fractions, txtbk pg 52, set hwk due Fri mymaths’
Not much flipping needed in lessons, and having it all in one place on the iPad is fab.

I can only in my wildest dreams imagine having everything I need on an actual electronic device noble. It is only extremely recently that a handful of us were trusted with remote access to email. And the DBMS we use is impenetrable

Oh Inkjoy coloured pens....

I'm impressed at your colour coding, crisps . I just use different colours because they look pretty.

(Wanders off to plan what different coloured pens could stand for...)

I suspect all those of you that like paper planners because they’re pretty have neater handwriting than me! Legible in September’s lessons always became dead spider by July.

I write in capital letters in my planner. It irritates me how much space is wasted though given that the vast majority of my diarised work happens between 9 and 3.42 (or 3.25 depending )

^Purple = intended lesson
Pink = what actually happened in the lesson^

Y9:
Intended lesson 🤓
What actually happened in the lesson 🤪😱🤬🔥

Pretty much it noble.

I used to be congratulated by the head how much I could trash my planning file with scrawled annotations after a lesson had been taught. There was more red ink on there (before red became forbidden) than printed planning sheet.

And my handwriting is shit. I've never had beautiful primary teacher handwriting!

We're all electronic in our school and I wouldn't go back to a paper planner now!

I think my SLT would explode with electronic planning.

I just treated myself to a planner from the positive teacher company.

It's sooooo pretty.

And yes, my name is missmarplesknitting, and I am a pen addict. It's been less than a week since my last purchase....

I’m with noble, iDoceo is great. The first year I bought a paper planner as well as I thought I’d miss it, but ended up not using it much.

While I still love the beauty of lots of stationery, iDoceo is so much more practical. As an English teacher it has also cut out the need for me to calculate percentages etc!

What do you do with all these pens?

I bought a bunch of those bic 4 colour, a couple with the pencil instead of the green pen and I’m totally sorted.

What do you do with all these pens?

Admire them. Concoct numerous spurious reasons that you NEED to use a purple sparkly gel pen for. Do a little skip with joy down the stationery aisle while buying them.

I got a little naffed off while doing planning for my PGCE and started seeing just how many colours of font I could use as a mildly subversive piss taking exercise... my uni tutor went into absolute raptures about how good my planning file was!

I bullet journal in a notebook to help my planning. I try and focus on particular aspects of a lesson with a class eg stretch and challenge, low level disruption etc. The bujo helps me as I'm in a new school and getting to know my classes and how to be as effective as I can.

Bujo needs coloured pens, and I also use them in my planning book and assessment records

What is a bullet journal?

It's a planner/to do book you design yourself.

I use a dotted notebook. Draw boxes for the things I'm trying to focus on. Maybe a sticker or two....helps me get my head around issues I'm having eg. Enduring I'm positive with a trying class so I monitor the merits/demerits I give out, how I tackle low level disruption and who/where noise is so I can improve.

I have fancied trying bullet journaling but I think it would take me ages to get used to the code.

I decided I am going to lmove from the pilot gel ink colours that I have used for years and go for the bic coloured pack. It has the same colours and is a fraction of the price.

What I now need is a notebook with a ribbon.

Or. To work for an authority which might be forward thinking enough to facilitate online planning and diary keeping

I'm a big planner fan but not a teacher. If you get an iPad that you can use the Apple Pencil with, there are tons of digital planners you can get and it almost feels like paper thanks to the Apple Pencil. Obviously a pricey option but worth considering. Plus you get a back up so god forbid you lose or damage your paper planner not all is lost.

Oh passme you know they won't be as good as the pilot ones!