


Title your calendar to indicate it is a planning calendar, NOT your class calendar.

Click on “Add calendar” in the menu on the left hand side. This is not the calendar automatically created by Google Classroom or your default calendar. You are going to create a new calendar just for lesson plans. Find the settings cog in the upper right. The interface shows really big numbers for the dates. Go to Settingsįirst, make sure you’re using new Google Calendar. Create a publicly shareable link to give others view access to your lesson plan calendar. Sharing with grade level teams or subject area teams is great, but what if you want to share with strangers? Teaching is hard and if we can pull together to share our lesson plans we can all benefit. Locate “Share with specific people” and click to “Add people.” Type in their email address. This will give you the option for Settings and sharing. To collaborate on a Google Calendar, hover over the calendar name on the left hand side and click on the 3 dots. Adding documents and links to the calendar event allows all collaborators to access the files, easy to find the activities for the day! If your department does the same lesson plans you can all use the same one. Review your lesson plans on your phone! You can COLLABORATE on a Google Calendar. It’s digital and accessible from pretty much every device. There are many advantages to using Google Calendar for your lesson planning book. Go digital with your lesson plan book and create your lesson plans in Google Calendar. Create a lesson plan calendar and share the link to the calendar to allow other teachers to follow you and what you do. New Google Calendar is rolling out and making it easier than ever to share our lesson plans. How do you follow day to day what a particular teacher is doing so you can “steal” those ideas for your class? There is some awesome teacher in “Vermont” doing some cool things and we all have no idea about it. There are 3.6 million teachers in the US and we do not have a collective way to share our lesson plans. Share Your Lesson Plans Through Google Calendar
