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The focus of this chapter is the planning that needs to take place to prepare for teaching, which could be summarised in 5S: scope, select, simplify, segment and sequence. It is suggested that teaching can be considered to have different levels of structure (somewhat as a protein does), each of which needs to be considered in designing coherent courses. This chapter moves between different scales from considering how a choice is made of what topics should be included in a course of study, to the fine structure of individual lessons. Key ideas in the chapter include identifying manageable learning quanta, pre-requisite knowledge, concept analysis, developing intellectually honest simplifications as target knowledge, the spiral curriculum, learning progressions, and reinforcement and consolidation of learning.

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