Short-term & day-to-day planning

Interactive Guidelines - Short-term & day-to-day classroom planning
Short-term planning see also Exemplars of short-term planning A short-term plan outlines the work for a topic or block of teaching. It should establish clear goals for work in the classroom and should build on pupils' prior knowledge and understanding as well as their past learning experiences. It should leave you well prepared and confident about what you are trying to achieve with pupils and give you a sound basis for assessment. A short-term plan should include, or have considered:
clarification & identification of the knowledge and concepts to be developed	the precise learning goals/ outcomes that you intend pupils to achieve	the learning activities that pupils will engage in to develop ideas & skills
some starting points for investigation of pupils' ideas	any specific tasks for particular individuals and/or groups	resources required
the teaching approaches/ classroom organisation to be used at different points	identifying the methods of assessment to be used and how they will be recorded	an indication of the time allocated for the block of work
how the development of pupils' ideas will be monitored and used to evaluate the effectiveness of the teaching approach
The next set of exemplars develops some of the topics, illustrated in the nine-year programme, to highlight these key features of a short-term plan. A variety of planning formats is used for illustration. Reference is made to specific levels of knowledge and understanding or skills as a means of identifying the main teaching focus. However, teachers will also need to take account of the needs of individual pupils that are working at other levels. Very often, teachers may simply annotate their short-term plans to indicate appropriate learning activities that will facilitate progression in learning for such pupils. Planning formats of this kind can also be used as a teacher's personal plan or record of work and can identify next steps for pupils and/or brief evaluations of particular lessons. It should be regarded very much as the teacher's day-to-day working document.
see also : 5-14 Environmental Studies nine-year plan Small school's Environmental Studies programme Implications for managers

Day-to-day classroom planning
The day-to-day classroom planning is the responsibility of the individual teacher and will build on the short-term plans developed by the school or department. The classroom teacher will be able to:
decide on appropriate starting points based on an exploration of pupils' existing ideas	take account of the needs of the pupils in the class and plan for differentiated activities
identify the most appropriate range of methodologies for different aspects of science ranging from whole-class work	to individual work identify opportunities that will encourage pupils to ask questions, test their ideas and observe and explore.

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