Back to the Gardening Calendar

Now let's start some longer-term planning: something that teacher's are often reluctant to do. We'll use the Department Calendar for this - a COPY of the calendar that our cunning efficient teacher has snaffled for their own purposes.  Let's focus on one inscrutable entry against Thursday 11 October - see it?  It says 'Year 11 Assessment 1 Complete'.  In order to plan effectively, it is really important that a teacher understands what deadlines like this MEAN.  Not 'what it means for the student' or 'what it means to the department' but 'what it means for the individual teacher concerned'.  This question should be asked right at the beginning of the school year, and the efficient teacher should know roughly how much discretion they have, and be able to figure out how much commitment is involved, for every event on the calendar.