Don’t Throw Away The Gold! 3 Powerful Ways to Reuse Your Best Lesson Plans!

Every once in a while, we teachers stumble upon a great idea: a catchy hook, a sticky pneumonic device, or a simple way to teach a tough concept. And sometimes, we create a lesson or a unit that blows our own socks off. With Cc, it’s easy to reuse your lesson planning gold!

Here are 3 powerful ways you can replicate your pedagogical glory! Reusing your most excellent work is a cinch:

Love ALL your plans? Transfer everything with one click!

Let’s imagine you’re a seasoned veteran: over the years, you’ve strengthened every lesson and unit so that they shine with educational splendor. Aside from the typical, tiny tweaks, your planbook is so solid that you can use it — start to finish — from one year to the next. By Summer’s end, you’re ready to copy last year’s planbook for the coming year. Here’s how to make it happen:

• From the Cc homepage, click “Create Planbook” and then choose “Copy a Planbook.”
• Choose the classes you want to copy, give your planbook a name, and make sure to choose “Yes, Copy the Lessons & Units.” And, done!

To learn more about how to transfer last year’s planbook, click here! (opens in a new tab)

Ready to reuse your best lesson plan and units? We’ve got you covered!

Perhaps you’re not yet a veteran teacher: though your planbook gets tweaked from one year to the next, you still have some lessons and even a unit plan that are rigorous, engaging, and fun for your students. When you’re interested in copying a few lessons or a unit from a previous year, it’s simple:

• Go to the Lesson Menu of the day you want your imported lessons to start.
• At the top, select the class you want to import from.
• Then select the lessons or units you want to import by clicking on them.
• Click the blue “Import Lessons” button. Now you’ll see the lessons appear in order. Effortless!

Click here to learn more about how to import lessons and units! (opens in a new tab)

Want to recycle your strongest visual aids, group activities, or writing prompts? Look no further!

Maybe your situation is a little different. Last year, you taught a lesson that wasn’t flawless, but it was sprinkled with a few moments of glory: a visual aid for your word study helped deepen student understanding, your end-of-class assessment was rigorous but attainable! For times like this, Cc has you covered:

• Open up the planbook you want to copy from in one tab.
• In another tab, open the second planbook to which you’ll be transferring materials.
• To import a specific material, hover over the card and click ‘copy.’ In the other window, navigate to the lesson to which you’d like to add your material. Click “paste.” Painless!

Ready to learn more about how to save your best materials? Click here! (opens in a new tab)