Do you think a teacher can just open the curriculum and teach a lesson to their class? Does the work day starts when the first bell rings and ends when the last bell rings? Think again…

One of the many hats that a teacher wears is that of a planner. An expert planner. Believe it or not, teachers are constantly planning, for the current day, the next week, month, term, year… So much planning! Based on the information I’ve gathered from my Educational Psychology textbook (Santrock et al.), the following chart outlines the five time spans that teachers take into account during their planning:It looks exhausting, and maybe it is! But I could not be more excited to get planning for my own class!