Key Resource: Planning and Preparing your Lessons

Consistently good lessons have to be planned. By planning and preparing well, you are concentrating on: what your pupils need to know in order to progress; how you are going to teach this in a way they understand; how you judge what they have learned at the end of it. So planning is a continual process that helps you to think and prepare what is needed to help your pupils respond well to you and the content of what you teach. For your pupils to learn from your lessons they need to be: interested – if they are not, nothing of any value will take place; very clear about what you want them to do and achieve.