"In a lesson plan you have to look at how you are going to teach the topic, the ability of the pupils, is it going to be group work or is it going to be teacher-centred, what resources you are going to use, and also the time factor." Severian Zulu, teacher, Zambia

"Before you plan you provide the steps, one step at a time, and if you don't plan you will not know these steps, which you have to follow sequentially." Dr Joseph Osapa Mankoe, teacher, Ghana

"These children are little, they make a lot of noise, they want to run around and do their own thing. Keep the children busy: and a hint here is, whatever activity you have got them doing, whether it's reading, whether it's doing maths problems, have extra work planned, so you can give extra work to the children who finish quickly." Jean Tiley, educator, South Africa