Most lesson plan templates fail on a Tuesday, when a fire drill swallows forty minutes and the grid has no room to move. Editable Weekly Lesson Plan Templates and Daily Teacher Planner is built in ordinary Google Docs tables you can drag: a period can be widened, a subject renamed, a column deleted or a whole day rewritten in seconds, without rebuilding the page or fighting a locked design.
Why this pack helps
Planning documents are personal in a way that decor is not. One teacher needs a standards column, another needs homework, a third teaches eight periods and none of the pretty templates fit. Rather than guess, this set gives you several structures and leaves them genuinely editable — plain tables, standard fonts, no locked graphics — so the template bends to your timetable instead of the other way around. It also prints tidily, which sounds obvious until you have tried to print a planner that was designed only to be looked at.
What’s inside the pack
- Weekly at-a-glance planners in five-day and four-day versions, in portrait and landscape.
- Daily plan pages with space for objectives, materials, groupings and notes for the next day.
- Period grids for four, six and eight period days, for departmentalized and secondary timetables.
- A small-group rotation planner for guided reading or math workshop, with four groups across five days.
- Supporting pages — meeting and professional-learning notes, a to-do list, a parent contact log and a year-at-a-glance calendar.
Which teaching structures it fits
- Self-contained elementary – one class, all subjects, blocked across the day.
- Departmentalized teaching – the same subject taught to several groups, planned once.
- Middle and high school periods – six or eight periods with a homework column.
- Specialist timetables – art, music, PE and library, where the class changes every session.
- Small-group rotations – guided reading, math workshop and intervention blocks.
- Co-teaching – a shared plan with a column for who leads which part.
- Substitute plans – a stripped-down daily page a stranger can follow.
- Long-range mapping – the year calendar for units, assessments and holidays.
Who it’s for
Teachers at any grade level who plan digitally, team leaders who want everyone submitting plans in the same format, student teachers who need a structure to work inside, and anyone who has been asked to hand plans to an administrator and would rather send a clean document than a photograph of a notebook.
How to set it up in your classroom
Open the file, save your own copy, then spend twenty minutes once setting up your timetable — subject names, period times, the columns you actually use — and save that as your master. From then on, each week is a duplicate of the master rather than a fresh build. If you plan on paper, print the weekly page double-sided and keep the term in one binder; if you plan digitally, keep a single document per term so the whole year is searchable.
How teachers use it
The pattern that saves the most time is duplicating last week and editing it, which is only possible because the tables are unlocked. Team leaders often distribute one pre-configured master so that plans arrive in a consistent shape and can be read quickly. The rotation planner tends to get used separately from everything else, printed and clipped to the small-group table, because that is where the decisions actually get made. The substitute page is the one people are most grateful for at seven in the morning.
Editions, printing & file format
- Editions: a color edition with tinted headers and a plain edition that prints cleanly in black and white.
- Format: editable documents for Google Docs and Microsoft Word, plus print-ready PDFs of each layout.
- Access: digital download delivered instantly after checkout, with lifetime access and re-downloads whenever you need them.
Please confirm you have a Google account or Microsoft Word before ordering, and check the preview to see which grid matches your timetable.
Frequently asked questions
Does it work in Google Docs? Yes — a link is included that prompts you to make your own copy in your Drive. It also opens in Word if you prefer to work offline.
Can I add or remove columns? Yes. These are standard document tables, so rows and columns can be inserted, deleted, merged and resized like any other table.
Will my school logo fit? You can insert an image into the header of any page, which is what most team leaders do before sharing a master with their year group.
Can I distribute the master to my team? Not from one purchase. The license covers one teacher; colleagues who want the templates need their own copy.
See more printable planning tools in Classroom Teaching Resources.
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