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Creating a Lesson Plan in Eduphoria's Forethought

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Developing a lesson in Forethought as a team and or individual

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hello Port Arthur Independent School District we have another video today today we're going to be covering online lesson planner through edge of four areas for thought so I'm going to die right in going to get started here navigate to Quick links for you are you going to enter your username which is usually your email address without the suffix paisd.org you don't need that part just need the beginning part of your email and your password to be with whatever password you use for your email so will sign writing once you sign in you going to have a Paige is going to give you all the programs in today's focus is going to be on for thought because that is where the lesson planner dislocated so we can click on for thought and you notice that once you click in the tab on the left hand side you want to make sure you click on a lesson plan so I'm going to use a dummy account so that we can list and see what a teacher's page would look like beginning in is it for years for so I'm in our testing account and I'm going to log into for thought as if I'm a teacher you notice not this teachers lesson plan it's already set up so if yours is not set up or you want to reset yours let's go through those steps now on the lower left hand corner we have a selection name change my settings if we could select it sitting where to option C on my planner and my schedule so we're going to click on my schedules and here you see a device. Rangers schedule so I'm going to delete the schedule that's in here and if I do that this is what you should see if you have your beginning teacher you've W's forethought or you returning teaching you want to start all over new book you teach a new subject or you just want to start all over this is the screen that you'll see so first thing I want to do is name our schedule so I'm going to name my schedule test but you can name your schedule whatever subject or content area that you teach when you click next on the lower right-hand corner and it's asking for our schedule now we're going to select add an entry click on add an entry we have three different selection the first selection is a course with learn standards this is the typical one that you going to use in most cases so in most cases going to use his first one the second was a course that mirrors another course in my schedule this is if you want to you've already created the course I already created schedule you in a copy that went to an schedule races maybe you're using a bday maybe on block schedule or maybe you teach two different courses at two different times and you just want to create another schedule the third one is a special entry this election is if you want to add something of the sword such as tutorials lunch break TLC whatever you may choose to add we're going to select course a course learning standards and we go to sleep next now it's where we at our curriculum or our teks to what subject we teach so we're going to select High School in living select English blue select English 1 my dummy teacher on my fake teacher or test teacher teaches English one hit next by default the entry title is going to be the title of whatever subject you teach you can change this but in most cases we can just leave this to sign the hit next year so now that you see that I click next my schedule is now added and you seeing which one at this point you can add another subject if you need to for instance teach more than one subject on more than one continent area if you teach on the elementary level and maybe you self contain and you teach social studies science math Andre you can add these other schedules if you would like for our testing purposes we just going to leave one you can also rearrange these so they will show up in the order that they are in the lesson plan by C-section so you can also reorder these if you feel that one should be first or second or third you can reorder them as you see fit in the click next it went back to our schedules if you like to add another you can if you want to edit the one that you just traded there's a button for editing if you want to start all over remove it there's also a selection for that will hit next on this one it let me know that I'm done I'm ready to start using my planner UCLA begin used to lesson plan in forethought once we do this once we select that selection now we are in the lesson planning section of the lesson planner you know this here is ours urgent that we teach a lesson unit title time in minutes and we can also add attachments if we need to add attachments if you double click on the gray area you would notice that your Tieks appears in the leg 10 panel right hand panel on the right-hand panel you see that you have several teams that have appeared if you click on them twice they were automatically appear in the body of your lesson plan stated in the gray area if you click the gray area once at the bottom UC is a checklist of items that you can check that you are giving assistance to your students so we have destruction sequence we have assessment will STAAR alt 2 allowable accommodations so we have accommodations list we have accessibility designated support list and we have the close button so once you select these items that you are giving to your students this portion of the sect of the plan is complete insulate clothes in the body we can all give the title of our lesson plan we can give how many minutes lesson plan on going to cover and if they're in attached I thought you liked attach princess activity out of Google Drive or PDF or a illustration picture you have that option here on attach a file this is the single day view if you want to see a lesson plans in a week view you simply select the calendar icon located in the upper right hand corner and select few weeks plan it would give you the whole week this is also put it on the calendar on the upper left-hand corner you also can skip two different days of the of the week in the month and you can navigate through the month simply by clicking on the day that you would like to lesson plan for you also noticed that when you go into the week for it you can also access to copy wizard function if you would like to copy the lesson plan from one day to the next simply cook on this copy wizard it is asked you questions on how you want to copy a certain portion of your lesson plans the first oximeters copy content in my planner the second option, and instructional days from year to year a ship lesson plans a day we got to go with the one that probably use the most which is copy content in my planner you going to consider like that one we going to Simply select copy a day will choose the day that we copy less I want to copy today which is the 14th we want to select a date is going to be copy to let's say that's the 16th you select next it gives you confirmation of what you want to I want to copy a lesson from Wednesday August 14th 2019 in my planner to Friday the 16 in my planner if you have special entries you can also include those UCLA finished and it is copied from the 14th through the 16th we all know that because on the 16th you can see it entered my name of my unit which was test in the time of the day to pay which is 50 minutes if I click on 14 you can see that it is copy it exactly if you would like to go back to the single view day simply click on the day twice on the day that you want to go back to in the sea and it will go return back to that view if you would like to create a team lesson plan we also have that function in forethought simply select the correct a new team icon located at the bottom left-hand corner you get a message that is now it's time to create a team select next into your team name you are allowed to make a description if you would like get the screen which is an team members you can select the add a member selection and simply put the email of the person that you want to add to your lesson plan did you for it will automatically add that person by name or email if you don't know the email that just ended the person's first name or last name and there are more than one person in the dishes with that name for thought would give you the option of which which member to select once I've added a person to my lesson plan I click next now I can barely get any of my courses we got again we're going to add English from high school English 1 and you will see that course up here you can also add additional courses if needed I want an additional course for demonstration purposes which should be Algebra 1 what's this added I hit next and I'm done to access my lesson planner my team do planner display panel located on the left under you my lesson plans select the team that you set up with your partner and you will see that you are now charity lesson plan with the team if we thought if you want to go back to your individual planner simply select my lesson planner they will put you back on your individual lesson plan you also have options to print in to edit your text as needed similar to Microsoft Word I hope this video helps you understand and baby to create lesson plans within for thought thank you Port Arthur a school district Educators have a wonderful day

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