Your Year, All in One Place: A Peek Inside the Media Teacher Planner

From lesson plans and deadlines to CPD notes and playlists - here’s what you’ll find inside the planner made specifically for Media teachers.

Teaching Media means managing everything from mock exams and NEA deadlines to last-minute edits and TikTok trends and often all in the same lesson. I created the Media Teacher Planner to keep all of that in one place and to treat us as, I don't know about you, but it sometimes feels like we're forgotten about. We're practical, we're academic, we nurture creativity but often not shown or celebrated in the headlines. So I wanted to do something just for us.

It’s practical, specific and made by someone who knows what it’s like to switch between analysing newspapers and sorting out a camera booking before break duty.

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Whether you're new to the subject or deep into Head of Department life, here’s some of what you’ll find inside:

Teaching & Organisation Section

• Two weekly timetables (up to 10 slots per day) for lessons, duties, meetings or after school activities

• A year planner for school and life events

• A key dates page for exams, mocks and coursework deadlines

• A space for logins, websites and AI tools you’re tired of losing in your inbox. This has been invaluable, particularly for coursework website logins that come by once a year.

Media-Specific Tools

• A page for media text recommendations and personal media habit tracking. Students are always asking 'Miss, have you watched...' and I used to say I'll put it on the half term holiday list but by the time afternoon tutorial would come around, I'd forget.

• Space to reflect on your career milestones and teaching progress.

• A media charts spread for yearly top 10s, from UK magazines to your own Spotify Wrapped. This has been so helpful, especially when trying to find examples to use that are engaging and relevant.

Trips, Events & Creative Planning

• Pages for extra-curricular ideas, trip planning and media contact lists

• First lesson back prompts for September - ideal when the summer haze hits

Weekly Planning (39 Weeks)

• Full weekly spreads with:

• School and life to-do lists

• Equipment checklist

• An Eisenhower Matrix for prioritising

• Media + habit tracker

• Plus: 2 meeting notes pages per week so you don’t lose key actions.

Media Basics & Independence Resources

• Key terminology and theorists

• Tips for annotating texts and encouraging student independence

• Perfect for NQTs or PGCEs or those mid-year "brain fog" moments

Production & Coursework Section

• Quick-access software shortcuts

• Coursework tracking sheets for first and final drafts

• An intervention planner to log student support and strategies

CPD & Head of Department Tools

• Pages to summarise professional development

• HOD section with team evaluation and planning

The PLAY Section

• Inset BINGO

• A space for funny quotes from students and staff because they deserve to be remembered

Final Thought

This planner isn’t just about looking organised - it’s about feeling in control of a subject that’s constantly evolving. It’s made to meet the actual needs of Media teachers: the practical ones, the creative ones and the ones no generic teacher planner ever really got.

Grab your copy of the Media Teacher Planner now or check out what else we've got here