This is a Department Calendar, dodo...

Now, here's a thing. I've just said that there were SIX kinds of planning document that every efficient teacher needs, and now I'm hitting you with number SEVEN. This is a document - ideally a single big spreadsheet-worksheet - which the school and/or the department should provide for the teacher. It should show all school and department actvities, events and deadlines in one easy-to-read form.

The great news is that if  you can lay your grubby little teacher-hands on a copy of this document, you can just delete the bits you don't care about (Concert by School Choir? No Thanks) and add in any dates which are important or specific to YOU, for example which days you supervise detentions, or when you have your Performance Review. It is really helpful if you can get ALL the key dates on one calendar, and this is the best way for an efficient teacher to do it. Just add in a new column to the right of the existing columns, and away you go...

Don't lose this post - I am going to rant on quite a bit about the column headed Reporting and Assessment Cycle