ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to help teachers to become a better planner. It begins with the problems that teachers have in planning. The chapter then moves to the structures of different teaching plans. Effective planning is a necessary and essential ingredient of effective teaching. Planning has special importance in broad content areas like social studies where there is so much information. Long-range planning starts well before the school year begins, at which point the teacher creates a curriculum map/guide for a specific subject for the upcoming school year/semester. The chapter looks at using and adapting different planning units, beginning with expanded textbook units. At some point in planning, a teacher needs to be concerned with the learning outcomes that he or she wants to occur as a result of the instruction. Educators usually refer to these outcomes that are given special focus as objectives.
