A digital special education teacher planner is a powerful tool for special education teachers to help them stay organized and keep their sanity during the year. This post will provide an overview of how a digital planner works and how to use it effectively. It will also discuss some of the benefits of using a digital planner in the classroom.
This is what you get when you use the planner:
Yearly Calendar
Monthly Calendar overview
Weekly Calendars
Weekly Agendas
Daily Agendas
Standards pages (to input your own standards)
Technology lists
Password Keeper
IEP at a glance
Lesson plan templates
Behavior Tracker
Collaboration logs
Teacher allocation money
Wishlist
Community based trip ideas
And so much more
You get to map out your daily and weekly schedule, keep track of your tasks – and voila: optimize your performance.
Duplicate and Delete
With this digital planner you can easily duplicate or delete pages. To duplicate a page simply click the + icon at the top of the page. Choose your template and insert a new copy before or after your current page. To delete a page (make sure there are no hyperlinks first) choose the four-square icon in the top left corner. Select the pages you want to delete and then choose TRASH.
Change It Up
You can change your font as many times as you would like by clicking the Aa in the otp right of the page. Or write your notes with a stylus and use the lasso tool to change your writing to a digital font when you are finished. Use digital stickers to group things together and keep things not only organized, but also cute.
Calendars
By using the digital special education teacher planner you can easily include all kinds of calendars. I love to have a monthly calendar to keep a big picture eye on what is coming up. But I also love both a weekly and daily view when I get into the nitty-gritty of my planning. These are all easily added and viewed in a digital planner.
The Little Things
You can have all kinds of extras in your digital planner too. Anybody else forget all your passwords? Not anymore! Just add a password keeper page and secure it with a code. How about those IEPs at a glance? Now they are literally at your fingertips. Need to see how much money is left in your classroom account? There’s a page for that also. It is all there, and all easy to use!
Want to Try It Before you Buy it, check out the Free Digital Exceptional Notebook to see if it is something you’d enjoy using.
Did you know, there is a weekly podcast for special education teachers full of actionable takeaways, trending teaching strategies and interviews from effective special ed teachers across the country. Make sure to check out Be The Exception podcast and subscribe to it on Apple and Spotify
Want to know what tools I use with my planner? Check my Amazon Storefront with them listed out there.
