ABSTRACT
Effective planning is at the heart of effective learning and teaching. This chapter examines planning in the long-(schemes of work) (pp. 26-27), medium-(units of work) (pp. 27-32) and short-term (lesson plans) (pp. 32-44). In your school experiences you are not normally required to plan for the long-term (i.e. to design schemes of work). Rather, you are expected to plan units of work and lessons within these units which fit into existing schemes of the department. However, when you start teaching you will be expected to be involved in long-term planning. In order to do this you need to understand the construction of schemes of work. Therefore, this chapter is designed to help you to understand the planning processes; it encourages you to consider the whole planning cycle and then aims to enable you to plan units of work and lessons on school experience.
