This post answers the 15th question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. You can see my other top-Thunks here.

Thunk 15: The day I forgot to plan my lesson, by Geography teacher @JohnSayers

Answer below:

The day, or more appropriately days in my case, where I have not planned a lesson have been limited to a few occasions mainly due to guilt at not sticking to the Sscheme of work and thinking; "Oh, how will we catch up!?"

It has not always been this way...

In my

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The Day I Forgot To Plan My Lessons


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This post answers the 15th question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. You can see my other top-Thunks here.

Thunk 15: The day I forgot to plan my lesson, by Geography teacher @JohnSayers

Answer below:

The day, or more appropriately days in my case, where I have not planned a lesson have been limited to a few occasions mainly due to guilt at not sticking to the Sscheme of work and thinking; "Oh, how will we catch up!?"

It has not always been this way...

In my

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