For one thing, experienced teachers do less individual planning. They can manager without it, and they are formidably busy. For another, the UK secondary strategies and frameworks focus on three over-arching levels – long, medium- and short-term planning – with little reference to the fourth: the lesson plan. These planning systems are largely based on learning objectives, listed appropriately for various age groups. This emphasis on objectives is potentially a very good thing indeed, but what it offers in the frameworks is an emphasis on the what and when of the curriculum. How learning actually happens in individual lessons receives much less attention