ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the key skills needed to make informed choices about learning objectives and outcomes, as well as considering how you can sequence these appropriately across lessons. It targets 'learning', rather than 'activities', and shows how it is vital to think clearly about the key learning that you want to include within your lessons. Learning objectives are the most important part of your lesson plan. It is absolutely vital that you understand what is meant by a learning objective and how it is used as a foundation upon which all the other elements of the lesson plan are structured. The lessons that you prepare and teach to your students do not take place in a vacuum. Like every element of your lesson planning process, learning outcomes will need to be brought to life through your teaching. Schools are able to contextualise the National Curriculum, alongside other frameworks for the management of teaching and learning, in their own way.
