Best Practices for Sharing Lesson Plans with Reserve Teachers + Book Creator

The Do's and Don'ts of Sharing Lesson Plans and Other Resources with Reserve Teachers

DON'T...

• Share your computer, Google, or Skyward login information with reserve teachers. This puts your information and your students' information at great risk. Depending on what passwords your computer might remember or passwords that are the same across platforms, a reserve teacher could access your bank account information, student data, your social media accounts, etc.
• ALL reserve teaching staff have computer and Google logins of their own. Building secretaries assign 

DO...

• Share or leave a link to your lesson plan. 
• PlanbookEdu is a great platform for keeping your lesson plans. You can share your lesson plans with colleagues or reserve teachers. 
• Click here for a 60 second overview.
• bit.ly is a great way to leave a link to a long URL, like a Google document. Using bit.ly you can shorten a long URL and even customize it. 
• Click here for resources to get started.
• Use the reserve teacher folder. 
• The reserve teacher folder is shared with teaching staff and reserve teachers in Google Drive. Within the reserve teacher folder there are folders for each school and within the folders for each school there are folders for each teacher. If you don't see a folder for yourself within your school you can create one. Your DLS or building secretary can help you with this if needed. Reserve teachers that attended the reserve teacher training have been taught how to access this folder.  
• Designate a classroom technology helper to assist the reserve teacher if needed.
• Share your lesson plans with a colleague or your building secretary as a back up plan.
• Communicate your expectations for lessons directly with students through your classroom management platform (i.e. Google Classroom) when appropriate.

Book Creator

Book Creator is a flexible tool that allows students of any age to create, publish, and share digital books.

When a book is published, the pages turn like a real book with audio and video playing right inside the app. In addition to a student creation tool, this tool would be wonderful for teachers to use as an instructional tool.