ESOL lesson planner book

There are so few resources out there for ESOL/ESL/EFL teachers to organize their teaching lives. Our schedules are far different from those of a classroom teacher and our materials need to be customized to that difference.

I created a PDF of what I currently plan to use as my paper lesson planner. I do my more in-depth planning on Chalk.com's Planboard because it gives my clickable links, places to embed photos, and easy access to relevant documents. However, I still need a quick glance reference in paper form and the typical classroom teacher planners do not cut it.

This is the layout of the file. The spiral would bind the two halves together.

I plan to use this PDF (feel free to download) to create a spiral bound notebook-style planner for the 2015-2016 school year. Please enjoy and give me feedback!

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It's becoming real!  Fall is approaching, though I'm not wishing my summer away, and I'm hunkering down in my classroom planning work.  Today, that looks like multiple stacks of old, inherited books and an evolving Excel spreadsheet.

Having an Android phone, apparently, limits my book cataloging app-pickin's, so I started off manually typing every book into a spreadsheet.  As expected, there's an easier way.

Scholastic's Book Wizard (love that little guy) has a book list tool that aggregates the books you pick (including their levels, interest information, and other key necessities for classroom libraries) and allows you to download it as an Excel file. I will still fiddle with the final list, organizing and adding categories to help my kiddos.

The process continues to evolve! There's so much hope packed into this process.

...I fully accept my romanticizing of this, by the way.