The Plan section of Taith360 allows you to create medium- to long-term plans using Descriptions of Learning (DOLs) from across the Statements of What Matter (WM) within each Area of Learning and Experience (Area/Areas). Using the planning tool enables you to track coverage across the curriculum and access the targeted tracking page, saving teacher time. Once a plan has been created, it can be exported as a Microsoft Word document for further editing and annotation.

Plan Features

Taith360’s plan tool allows you to create medium- to long-term plans for whatever topic you are looking at. You are able to select as many descriptions of learning from whichever of the six Areas and cross-curricular frameworks you like, following the directive of the new curriculum for a rounded approach to the curriculum.

While creating a plan, you can view current recorded attainment for the selected class against each description of learning using the coloured stage bar system from the track page. This means you can see which aspects of the curriculum need more attention and where students are having most success. You can also keep track of curriculum coverage, so you can see which descriptions of learning have been planned for, and how many times, to help you decide which need to be included in future plans.

All plans can be edited and amended to keep them up to date should the teaching and learning need to change for any reason. They can be exported as MS Word files to allow for further annotation and integration into existing proformas used within your school.

Creating a Plan

Select Plan from the Menu bar.
Select Create New Plan
Enter a name for your plan.
Click Edit to select the class(es) to apply the plan to:

Use the dropdown to find a class the plan is for.
Click + to add it to the list of classes.
Repeat steps A and B for as many classes are required.
Click Save to apply the class selections to your plan.
Specify a date range, if useful.
Specify the owners of the plan

Use the dropdown to find a teacher to assign to the plan.
Click + to add them to the list of teachers.
Repeat steps A and B for as many teachers are required.
Click Save to apply the teacher selections to your plan.

Owners of the plan are the only staff members that can make changes to the plan. By default, the staff member logged in will be the owner, but they can use this dropdown to select other staff members that will be owners alongside them. This is ideal for teachers in a job share situation.

Add in which elements of the Four Purposes you want to include:

Click Edit.
Select the statements you would like to include from the multi-select menu.
Click Save to apply the selections to your plan.
Add in which elements of the Relationship and Sexuality Education Framework you want to include:

Click Edit.
Select the statements you would like to include by clicking on each one in turn, which will highlight them.
Click Save to apply the selections to your plan.
Enter any Learning Activities or Notes you may have for your plan into the free text boxes.
Select the first Area and WM to work from.

 

Use the Coverage filter to refine which DOLs you are seeing based on planned coverage to date. The number in the black circle for each DOL details how many times that DOL has been planned for in the current academic year, for your selected class.
Use the arrows either side of Next Step to move around the Progression Steps.

Click to choose which aspects of the Principles of Progression you want to include for the selected Area:
Select the statements you would like to include from the multi-select menu.
Add in any additional notes relevant to your selections, as required.
Click Save to apply the selections to your plan.
Choose which descriptions of learning you would like to include by clicking on empty circles to select DOLs or whole elements within the selected Progression Step. You can then select a different Area/WM and continue to add as many DOLs as you like.
DOLs selected will appear in the Plan Summary on the right hand side of the page. When you have added the DOLs you want to include, click Apply Selections at the bottom of the Summary.
Review and finalise your plan or go back to make any changes. Click Edit to return to the previous screen or Save to complete your plan.

Plan Actions

My Plans

Here you can view your current plans for the year (as well as looking back at previous years’ plans by using the dropdown filter at the top of the page). From this page, you can:

  • Edit – Allows you to make changes to any existing plan.
  • Delete – Remove plan from Taith360. This will delete the plan everywhere on the system and it will no longer be viewable on the Browse Plans tab (deleted plans can be restored if deleted by mistake). If you delete a copied plan, only the copy will be deleted.
  • Copy – Reproduces the current plan. This is useful if you teach the same topics to multiple classes or would like to replicate a plan from a previous year. Duplicated plans must then be edited to assign a new class and date range before changing any of the DOLs included.
  • Export – Exports the plan to a Microsoft Word document for further editing.
  • Track – Use your plan to access a filtered view of the track page.
  • View – View your created plans when needed.

Browse Plans

On Browse Plans, you can view and copy plans from other classes and teachers in the school. Plans can be filtered to make browsing easier. Copied plans are added to your ‘My Plans’ page.

Editing a Plan

Select Plan from the Menu bar and then either My Plans or Browse Plans.
Click Edit. You will be taken to the main edit plans screen.
Amend your plan as you would when creating a plan and click Save when you are done.

Copying a Plan

Select Plan from the Menu bar and then either My Plans or Browse Plans.
Find the plan you would like to copy.
Click Copy – the plan will then appear in your list of current plans.
By clicking Edit, you can make changes to all aspects of the plan.

It is important that you assign the copied plan to your class at this point. If the copied plan is not assigned to your class, planned coverage for the class will not be counted and you will not be able to assess the class based on the plan (see below).

Tracking attainment from a Plan

Select Plan from the Menu bar and then My Plans.
Find the plan you would like to assess and click Track.
You will be taken to a filtered version of the full Track page that shows only the Descriptions of Learning that you selected for the plan.
Select the Plan, Class and WM

Recording attainments on this page works in exactly the same way as the full Track page.
For more information on how to do this, go to Tracking

Use the dropdown menus or the Plan Index to switch between Areas and statements of what matter.
Attainments should be saved as you make them, as you would on the regular Track page. Select the next Area/WM from the Plan Index until you have completed tracking.