The Planning Process: A Perspective on Planning for Teaching and Learning... A Summary: Lots of the focus of planning teaching and learning has been on setting high standards and improving key skills. You might remember my mention of 'Strong Starts' ; I have been using a set proforma at the start of most lessons so far this year which aims to reinforce this idea, and to immediately engage students from the point they enter the classroom. So far so good! I have not really felt that 'void' period of the lesson between students entering the room, and the start of teacher exposition. I'm not sure if I've mentioned this... (ahem), but encouraging students to think more about what they write and how they write it is a bit of a drive for me within the Sport and Uniformed Protective Services curriculum this year. Students have all attempted a curriculum-related extended writing task and have received feedback which focused mostly around how to 'Write with Impact...