A whiteboard weekly planner covered in names on sticky notes

“I can plan a good lesson. Planning a good half-term is another matter.”

Planning a Sequence of Lessons

Primary and secondary Sharpening the craft

What you will be able to do

  1. Break a unit into a logical sequence of lessons
  2. Place retrieval and revisiting where pupils actually forget
  3. Turn a shared scheme of work into lessons that fit your class

The programme, unit by unit

55 lessons in 7 units, 16 h 30 min in all. Lessons run about 18 minutes each, so you can fit one into a free period.

  1. From topic to sequence

    8 lessons · 2 h 24 min · running total 2 h 24 min

  2. Choosing the core content

    8 lessons · 2 h 24 min · running total 4 h 48 min

  3. Order, dependencies and prior knowledge

    9 lessons · 2 h 42 min · running total 7 h 30 min

  4. Spacing and interleaving

    8 lessons · 2 h 24 min · running total 9 h 54 min

  5. Planning the single lesson

    9 lessons · 2 h 42 min · running total 12 h 36 min

  6. Adapting a shared scheme

    7 lessons · 2 h 6 min · running total 14 h 42 min

  7. Project: your half-term sequence

    6 lessons · 1 h 48 min · running total 16 h 30 min

What is in the course

Streamed video lessons, watched online.

  • Case studies in four subject areas, each planned from a blank page on screen
  • Templates for a sequence map, a knowledge organiser and a retrieval schedule
  • Techniques for spacing, interleaving and revisiting content
  • A final project: plan your own half-term sequence

Who it’s for

Teachers who inherit schemes of work, new curriculum leads and anyone planning a unit from scratch.

Primary and secondary teaching.

What this course is not

  • An accredited qualification. It is professional development, not an award from an exam board or a university.
  • Live teaching. There is no live tutor and no timetable. You press play when you are ready.
  • Marked or assessed. Nobody marks your work. Practice tasks are for your own planning and reflection.
  • A replacement for your school. It does not replace your school's own induction, or a SENCo's advice about a pupil.
  • Something to download. Everything is streamed online. There are no files to keep.

Watch it in your week

About 6 weeks at 3 hours a week

The lessons add up to 16 h 30 min, which is 16.5 hours. Give it 3 hours a week and 16.5 ÷ 3 = 5.5, rounded up to 6 weeks. That is about 10 lessons a week.

You have 24 months of access, so you can stop for a busy half-term and pick up where you left off.

  • 1 hour a week17 weeks
  • 2 hours a week9 weeks
  • 3 hours a weekour suggestion6 weeks
  • 5 hours a week4 weeks

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