SCM planner or alternatives

Sue,

Could you clarify more how you plan? Are you keeping another notebook or spreadsheet with your long term planning and then each weekend you take a look at Monday on the Organizer to see if you have everything entered? Then you have to mark what’s done each day, right? So you have everything assigned everyday and then you mark what gets done for the record on a daily basis, and know where to pick up the next time you do that subject?

It sounds like you work the Organizer a bit different than the SCM videos show. I like flexibility, but I am trying to see the value in it versus what Sherez does and just checks off the TOC and writes in the date. Please expand more on that.

@4myboy, Do you have the Planning Your CM Ed. video/planner?? With it comes the downloadable forms to type in your schedule for the week/day/semester/whatever. I type in my “weekly” schedule, even field trips, doc. appt., etc., print it out, put it on the fridge so I can see at a glance what we have going for the week. I still use Organizer for their daily assignments (especially for my 13yo) and for keeping track of their completed assignments (no paper trail/white out), etc. Each Friday (or over the weekend) I go over the weekly schedule and compare it to our home calendar and make necessary changes. I don’t need to change anything in the Organizer since it’s not necessary to do so, I just skip marking it Worked On/Finished. It’ll pop up on the next day it’s scheduled…..sooo easy.

Most of our days/weeks are the same anyway, so not too much changes in my typed schedule, but I do like “seeing” what days are not going to be that productive (with book work). And if I can squeeze an assignment into a different day, I do. This also helps me to make sure that I’m not over/under scheduling our day. Make sense??

Just yesterday I had to add some resources and make some changes to when I had certain subjects scheduled…it is so easy and fun. I had meant to post to the forum how easy it was to do that without having to deal with the paper mess, plus, I can set it and forget it (I know, lame). It’ll all be there today to print (or not) and get to work.

As you can tell…I love it.

Even if you don’t schedule for every day of the week, you can click on the bottom where it says “Show assignments not scheduled for today” (or something similar) – and it shows all the assignments

I schedule everything for Saturday. Mainly so that if we miss anything during the week, we can do it on Saturday. I just collapse everything we don’t need to do. I see that I can use that to my advantage in a new way: Saturday evening I can print a list and know what to prepare for next week. I didn’t even think of that! Thanks.

To schedule tests, you could just create a new resource or use just the tests from a current resource. Either use it after your math (or whatever) book is finished, or schedule it for a certain date. I have a special project I want to do for science this summer, so I’ve just scheduled it to start the first Monday in July. Now I don’t have to worry about it.

I’ve just started using the organizer again, and I’m loving it. We are getting things done, I’m not erasing, and I’m not feeling guilty. I love that I can go in and print records as well.