Back to Basics - Forethought: Lesson Planner for Teachers
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0:00 Start
2:15 First time accessing Forethought
4:38 Create a Schedule as a New Teacher
6:01 Recommendations for naming your schedule - don't use dates
7:02 Add Entries (courses or preps) for your schedule
8:56 Recommendation for Entry Names and whether to change them or not
10:23 Adding more entries to your schedule
10:50 Entry Types explained - Mirrored courses & Special Entries
12:28 Example of adding a Special Entry to a schedule
13:34 Change the order of courses in a schedule
14:08 Recommendation for more than one schedule
15:00 Finished editing and now Begin Using Forethought button
16:18 Editing a Schedule as a Returning Teacher
17:39 Add/Edit Entries (courses/preps) to your schedule
18:16 Re-order entries/courses
20:04 Q&A: How to setup a planner for block schedules - A/B days
22:38 Q&A: How to manage a self-contained classroom schedule
23:50 Navigating the Lesson Planner
24:48 Stamping dates on the calendar - why your updated entries may not be showing
25:42 How to remove an old entry and add the new template
27:06 How to tell if a day has been stamped with an old entry
28:13 Create a template for a Special Entry
29:23 Customize your lesson planning template and make it the default for use moving forward
32:04 View plans by week, plan by day and plan by course
33:17 View Plans by Week
34:13 Return to planning by Day
34:48 Plan by Course view
36:01 Adding learning standards and/or curriculum to a lesson plan
39:13 Using Checklists in your planner
40:47 Tracking checklist usage by month
42:42 Viewing standards covered with check marks
43:00 Viewing history of standards covered during current instructional year
44:40 Running the Standards Coverage Report
48:22 Writing a Lesson Plan
48:57 Adding attachments to a lesson plan
49:37 Tips, Tricks, and Recommendations for Forethought
49:40 Using Copy Wizard to copy plans by week, day, or shift plans by day
54:14 Taking Plans from Forethought to your own storage
55:51 Closing Remarks