ABSTRACT
Planning is for teaching and learning. It is an activity in which all teachers engage, in some way or another. In their planning, teachers interpret the National Curriculum Programmes of Study or examination syllabus requirements, the coverage of basic skills and whole-school policies, their subject knowledge and views and values about learning, into classroom activities for pupils. Planning is therefore an extremely creative activity, one which calls for solutions to highly complex questions, such as how to make abstract concepts accessible to pupils. ‘To understand planning is therefore to understand how teachers transform and interpret knowledge, formulate intentions and act from that knowledge and those intentions’ (John 1993: 3).
