Jason Anderson Jaber Kamali

This article introduces an original lesson-planning approach that we call ‘narrative lesson planning’ (NLP). NLP is an intuitive, flexible alternative to the traditional tabular lesson plan that enables the planning teacher to write about a future lesson using discursive text, thereby helping them to make explicit their choice of activities, their justifications for these activities and their underlying beliefs and assumptions. By doing so, it enables the teacher, and anyone supporting their development (teacher trainer, line manager) to explore their thinking process in greater depth and clarity and aid their development more effectively than standard lesson-planning approaches. We have...