My diy best student planner is created just like my DIY 7 Step Curriculum Planner. Also, be sure to look at my page Homeschool Planner for more forms which easily can be used here.
To teach good time management skills, a child needs to see who he is using his time.
It’s not fair to tell a child to manage his time and yet not give him a tool like a student planner to track it with.
In addition, like us students want control over how they track their time.
Some kids need more of a checklist, others may need to see chunks of time.
Listed are some of the ways I helped my children manage their time.
How to Help Your Homeschooled Children Manage Their Time
1. By allowing them to choose which subject to cover first and in what order.
2. If they do not get what is required of them for my school day because they chose the order in which the subjects are to be covered.
Then failure is best learned at home where it can be addressed.
I don’t feel failure is necessarily a time of punishment but of education and experiment.
You as the mom know if the child’s attitude was a lax one where discipline may be needed or if it truly was a failed attempt to manage his time.
As moms, we are constantly trying to find schedules and routines to suit us until we find something that is “doable”.
The child should be allowed to do this while at home where he is learning independence and time management.
Student Planner
3. Setting timers if the child is not stressed by them but sees them as a “tool” to balance time spent on subjects and not a “race against time”.
This has always been stressed by me and they see me using it to cook with in our kitchen and knows it signals anything that I am cooking “done”.
So any child, young or old can understand that ) Again, it’s all how you explain it to them.
4. Adding visuals to our school area to help them see where they are at during the day in particular subjects.
For example, each of my son’s have a stack of drawers that contain one subject in each drawer.
They know to start at the top and work their way down. This lets them see how many subjects or drawers they still need to cover that day.
5. Check off lists made by me or by him looking at my Curriculum Planner from an early age is how I trained my oldest son.
When they are young, let them see you write/plan in your planner. Organization is learned by modeling first way before they use a planner.
As I have tips, I will add them to this main page for the Student Planner.
Too, I want you to know that many of my options found on Steps 5 – 7 work for this Student Planner so be sure to look over those pages and add in what your teen wants as you build his or her planner.
Begin Building Your DIY Student Planner
STEP 1. Choose a student planner cover.
Step 2. Calendar Pages
Like you, your student may want calendar pages.
If you want calendar pages, choose from my calendar pages on the 7 Step DIY Homeschool Planner Step 2: Choose Calendar/Appointment Keepers. Sometimes your child does not need as extensive calendar keeping as you do, so you decide which ones to add or ask your child.
Step 3. Choose Student Lesson Planning Pages below OR choose the lesson planner pages on the homeschool planner
So many choices! Worse than shopping with a teen!
Note: this is the MAIN part of your planner and when you print you will want to print front and back and print enough for the year. Too, you may want to print weekly instead of coil binding.
Decide what is best for your teen. For me? It takes more time to print it all off at one time, but I have it for the whole year.
The lesson planning pages here, however, are more suited for each student having their own planner that is unique.
Again, you have choices and determine what is good for you instead of purchasing a planner where you only use parts of it.
Font Style 1
Style 2
Style 3.
Font Style 4.
Step 4. Choose Fun Pages.
Like Random Thoughts & Teen Driving Record
The pages created below were designed to make the planner something that your student can call his own. Planning, I have always said, is part journaling.
Allow your student room to create if he wants to. Print as many or mix match the colors along with the black and white one to spread throughout the planner or make one section for just Random Thoughts.
They have many color choices.
About the Driving Record .
Whether you choose a state approved program and teach your teen yourself or you have them attend a driving course, this form will help you track the options.
My Random Thoughts page. So many fun color choices to choose from:
These End of the Year Flash back pages can be a back cover or place it at the end of your students planner.
Steps 5 – 7. Choose a Back Cover, Bind it, Personalize It.
Like the homeschool planner, the student planner can be personalized by adding pictures or any other form you student wants.
How to Get the Free Student Planner Pages
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However, this is not all I have.
I have ANOTHER free student planner below that I call the girly girl planner.
ANOTHER Free Student Planner – Girly Girl
- Free Student Planner–Undated Calendar {Girly Girl Set}
- DIY Undated 12 Month Calendar | Organized Planner
I just wanted to let you know, my daughter is 11, and she LOVED your girly-girl planner pages!!
Love that Mara!!!!!!!♥♥
Do you take suggestions? I came back after using your curriculum planner from your sister site; I was hoping you would have something I could use to add a prayer list section to my planner. I’d like to have something I could include in my planner that I carry around with me to jot notes when I’m praying for someone or need to remember a need. I don’t see anything like that but it would sure be nice!! Thanks for all the hard work you do.
Last year I purchased a 2 page spread (per month) calendar from you. Do you have another one for 2016?
thank you.