ABSTRACT
This chapter examines why teachers plan lessons, what is meant by planning, how to start planning and preparing a computing lesson and the planning issues associated with coursework and projects in computing. It explains the need for planning, how to apply this to a lesson in computing and computing coursework and project planning. In schools, long-term planning is usually in the form of a scheme of work, derived from the national curriculum or a subject syllabus. Each school or training institution usually has its own favoured template for lesson planning, but they all have the following in one form or another: learning objectives; strategies for dealing with children of different abilities, including those with very specific needs; resources; organisational issues; key features of the lesson, which are sometimes related to a timeline. A common strategy used to support project planning is to display deadlines and timelines clearly in the room, and to send the dates to parents and others.
