Even in a digital world, most of us teachers use a planner. If we are lucky enough to have our own classroom, it lives on our desk during the day. If we are not, we carry it from room to room, occasionally having to retrace our steps to find it again. Some of us have a good enough work/life balance to leave it at school when we go home.
Which of these looks the most professional?
Some of us now plan online. It means we can copy and paste the template for each teaching week rather than writing it out again and again. But this comes at the cost of having to login and open up the document every time you want to refer to it. And, if you are using the same computer to show a presentation or a video clip, then you are juggling applications on your computer in addition to all the other juggling which goes with managing a class full of children.
Isn't there a better way? Can't we have the reassuring presence of a physical planner without the hassle of endlessly rewriting our own timetable in it? Not to mention filling in the days and the dates.