Teacher planning guides
Clear, practical answers to the planning questions teachers ask most: how to write a scheme, plan a week and a term, and use the curriculum's codes.
Where to start
Teacher planning works from the top down. The curriculum sets what learners should learn; a Yearly Scheme spreads it across the school year; a Term Scheme decides what is taught each week of the term; and a Weekly Learner Plan turns one week into lessons. If you are planning a new term, start with how to plan a teaching term. If your scheme is ready and you need this week's lessons, go to how to plan a teaching week.
Guides
Planning a term or a year
What is a Scheme of Learning, and how do you write one?
What a Scheme of Learning is, how it differs from a lesson note, what goes in it, and how to plan a term or a year week by week without common mistakes.
Writing weekly plans
How to plan a teaching week
A step-by-step way to plan a teaching week: choosing what to teach, fitting it to your timetable, and writing objectives, activities, resources and assessment.
Planning a term
How to plan a teaching term
Plan a term before it starts: count your teaching weeks, map curriculum content across them, sequence learning, plan assessment and adapt when dates change.
Understanding the curriculum
Curriculum indicator codes: how to read them and plan with them
How the codes in a standards-based curriculum document are built, what each part of a code means, and how teachers use the codes in schemes and weekly plans.
Samples
Illustrative example
Sample Scheme of Learning
An illustrative Term Scheme of Learning for a Basic 4 Mathematics class: what a term's plan looks like week by week, with strands, resources and assessment.
Illustrative example
Sample Weekly Learner Plan
An illustrative Weekly Learner Plan for one Basic 4 Mathematics week: each lesson's starter, main activity and reflection, with resources and assessment.
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