The latest development in our Planning Frameworks for teachers is Tannis Calder’s Circular frameworks. Many teachers find these more “user-friendly” than our other frameworks.

You might like to download copies of the mythic and romantic frameworks here. You will find two versions of each framework. The first included some guiding questions to help the teacher in planning a lesson or unit, and the second is a blank with space for writing down the elements of the plan.

Because many teachers find the hardest part of planning using IE is finding appropriate Binary Opposites or Heroic Qualities, Tannis has also provided pages of examples teachers might choose from. At least, this great variety of usable Binaries or Heroic Qualities will likely make it much easier for teachers to see which ones might do the job for them or give them ideas for others that they may find themselves. You can also download these from the Planning Frameworks page.

We hear frequently from or about teachers who have developed units and lessons using our frameworks, but teachers seem reluctant to send us copies. We’d like to emphasize that we’d be really interested to see your examples, and we would be happy to make suggestions for improving them, if we can think of anything and you would like suggestions. We’d also be happy to add them to our set of examples, if you are willing to let us.