Planning lessons
Once the projects have been added to your curriculum, plans have been set up and assigned to classes, and teachers have been assigned, My Planner will automatically pull through the lessons from the projects. Teachers can drag and drop these lessons into My Planner, and create their own lessons from discrete objectives to create their short term plan.
Adding a lesson from a project added to your curriculum
- Go to the Find Lessons section on the right-hand side of the My Planner page. (Note: if your Maestro admins or SLT have excluded lessons from your project, they will not appear in the list of lessons.)
- Choose to filter lessons 'By subject | By stage'.
- Select a class.
- Select a project (type to search for projects). The stages/subjects will appear in a dropdown menu below.
- Choose a stage/subject.
- Drag and drop the lesson into My Planner on the day and time required.
- The lesson can be lengthened or shortened by clicking and dragging the bottom edge of the lesson to change the size of the box.
- When the planned lesson has been completed, lesson content can be viewed and edited by clicking on the box. Click 'Save' after making any changes to the lesson.
Once the lesson has been delivered, click the 'Taught?' button to track coverage and attainment. At any time, the lesson and/or attainments can be deleted by clicking the 'Delete' button. Creating a lesson - using discrete objectives
This is useful for creating one-off lessons that are not part of the chosen projects.
- Click on the calendar at the time required, then click in the blue box that appears (you can also click the + button in the top left hand corner).
- Choose a class.
- In Event type, select 'Lesson - using discrete objectives'. Choose the required subject.
- Give the lesson an appropriate title.
- Click 'Create'. A new window will appear, you can add teaching notes and choose the required objectives for the lesson by clicking the Coverage tab then clicking the 'Add skills/knowledge' button.
- Click 'Save'.
The lesson can be edited (before it has been taught) by clicking on it in My Planner.
Once the lesson has been delivered, click the 'Taught?' button to track coverage and attainment. At any time, the lesson and/or attainments can be deleted by clicking the 'Delete' button. Creating a lesson - using a project activity
This is useful for creating one-off lessons from any of our projects that have been added to your school curriculum.
- Click on the calendar at the time required, then click in the blue box that appears (you can also click + button in the top left hand corner).
- Choose a class.
- In Event type, select 'Lesson - using a Project activity'.
- Next to Lesson, type to search for a project in the first box, then choose a lesson in the second box.
- Click 'Create'.
The lesson can be edited (before it has been taught) by clicking on it in My Planner. In the pop up box, you can add teaching notes and choose additional objectives for the lesson by clicking the 'Add skills/knowledge' button.
Once the lesson has been delivered, click the 'Taught?' button to track coverage and attainment. At any time, the lesson and/or attainments can be deleted by clicking the 'Delete' button. 
Any lesson can be copied and edited so that it may be reused multiple times (though it cannot be made to be a repeating event). Just click on the required lesson and select the 'Copy' button, then amend the details as needed.
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