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emmaturner75.bsky.social • 135 days ago

New blog, "The lost art of planning".
http://thinkingflexibly.com/2024/10/18/the-lost-art-of-planning/

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Working out to plan dept CPD time around shared planning (not resource creation) is my biggest challenge at the moment. I think everyone is enjoying it but in a big team it’s hard to build everyone’s expertise after so many years of teaching from shared schemes of work.

Thank you for this article 🙏🏼

emmaturner75.bsky.social•133 days ago

Thanks Ben. It's a challenge for sure.

themarkscheme.bsky.social•134 days ago

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edurbin.bsky.social•135 days ago

Great blog - very eloquently captures something I’ve been worried about for a long time.

I had similar experience to you (albeit with more internet access and at secondary) in having to plan 100s of lessons from scratch in my first few years. Made loads of mistakes but ultimately improved…

edurbin.bsky.social•135 days ago

…now I think about colleagues who have maybe planned single digit lessons from scratch in their first few years.

The relative decline of the PGCE has something to do with it I think: I did so much lesson planning, and got so much feedback, in my training year. Not sure that’s there elsewhere.

edurbin.bsky.social•135 days ago

But at secondary, I think individual departments can square this circle. You can have a shared curriculum but, each year, each teacher (or maybe n experienced planned paired with a new teacher) takes responsibility for one SOW and either improves it or rewrites it - that way you get innovation but..

edurbin.bsky.social•135 days ago

…also CPD.

alexjw.bsky.social•134 days ago

Excellent - I will still die on this hill: A fully resourced curriculum is not a planned curriculum because the real planning is thinking about all that content and how to use the resource to teach the actual kids in front of you to access, understand and connect that content! Someone recently

alexjw.bsky.social•134 days ago

Used a new verb - ‘whiterosing’ it by which they meant teaching a lesson with prepared slides without knowing what the next slide was going to say and blagging it in the moment!!!!

educatingjess.bsky.social•93 days ago

This is what teaching is becoming - it’s so wrong!

alexjw.bsky.social•93 days ago

Yup

michaelt1979.bsky.social•135 days ago

I think there's a key element missing here: we expect *far* more of planned sequences these days. I remember sitting in a planning meeting in the late 90s, and all the foundation subjects for a half-term were planned on a single sheet of A3. Very little sense of progression. sequencing or assessment

michaelt1979.bsky.social•135 days ago

That just wouldn't wash nowadays.
Aside from the argument of the relative merits of that approach compared to now, the reality is that the "threshold concepts" that sufficed then would be inadequate now.
We were 'learning to drive' on 1950s lanes, and now ECTs are thrown straight onto the motorway

michaelt1979.bsky.social•135 days ago

(I'm genuinely torn about the 'dilemma'. I'm a fan of a thoroughly planned curriculum... but I do wonder if the gains have so obviously outweighed the losses)

teachingwrens.bsky.social•134 days ago

Yeah... there's a massive benefit for me as Y4 teacher and English lead in knowing *exactly* what the children were taught in Year 3, for example.

hazelmpinner.bsky.social•135 days ago

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mr-n-wood.bsky.social•134 days ago

Marvellous 😍

bennewmark.bsky.social•135 days ago

Whoa Emma this is is brilliant.

emmaturner75.bsky.social•135 days ago

Thanks Ben

year1teacher.bsky.social•135 days ago

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swerupa.bsky.social•134 days ago

Not sure it’s quite lost, but the opportunities are much more limited. Also to do with the stakes being so much higher, so people are less willing to allow others to make mistakes.

swerupa.bsky.social•134 days ago

@victoriacrooks.bsky.social think this works along with one of your blogs.

catrionacard.bsky.social•135 days ago

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mrsp-x.bsky.social•133 days ago

Excellent blog Emma. I’d love to see more time and focus given to how to ‘plan’ independently but the expectations are so much higher now and, in primary, there’s just no time! Many newer teachers have definitely missed out and can struggle to adapt their teaching without a clear idea of the ‘why’.

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