ABSTRACT
This chapter presents practical ideas, frameworks and guidelines on preparing for and managing learning in science. They are presented for readers to consider, with a minimum of discussion: suggestions for further reading therefore are important and lengthy. Creating schemes of work is often a shared activity in a science department that achieves several aims. Strong supporters of learning styles argue that students learn most effectively when they are taught in a style that best matches their preferred style of learning. The chapter shows a lesson planning cycle that should be useful in linking lesson plans to schemes of work. One of the activities that teachers engage in their view of learning or lesson planning is that of asking questions. The chapter addresses the most common management goals for the teacher are quite simply to organise and control pupil talk in the classroom, and to keep pupils to task.
