Weekly lesson plan grid
Five columns for the school week in landscape, with a label column down the left for periods or times.
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Five columns, and a column to name them
A week of lessons is five columns and however many periods your timetable runs. The label column takes the period number or the time; the five numbered columns take the days. The numbers are generic on purpose — write Monday to Friday across the top, or use them as period numbers and put the days down the side if your timetable reads better that way round.
Landscape, because the week is wide
Turned sideways, each of the five columns is over four centimetres across, which is enough to write a topic, a resource and a homework note rather than just a title. In portrait the same grid gives columns too narrow to be useful and wastes a great deal of vertical space. Almost every commercially printed lesson planner is landscape, for exactly this reason.
One page, one week, filed in order
The advantage of a paper plan over a digital one is that a term's worth sits in a folder and can be flipped through — which is what you actually do when planning next year, or when someone asks what was covered in week four. Print a term at a time, date each sheet as you use it, and keep them in sequence.
Printing it accurately
This only measures correctly if your printer doesn't rescale the page. In the print dialog set Scale: 100% — not "Fit to page" or "Shrink oversized pages". If you're not sure it worked, print the calibration page, measure the ruler on it with a real ruler, and it will tell you exactly what your printer is doing to the page.