what is meant by ST/MT/LT Planning?

Question

it's in teaching career

Answer 1

I believe ST stands for "Short Term" planning. As in, planning your lessons for the next day or week. When you plan for the short term, you need to think about exactly what you're going to do for your lessons - how will you introduce it? what are your objectives? how will you teach the content? how will you test the students' knowledge? etc.

MT probably stands for "Mid term" planning. That would mean planning units of study - like when you spend a few weeks teaching multiplication, for example. Mid-term planning might just involve setting your goals for the unit, and some ideas for how you want to teach the content, in what order, and how long it should take. For your multiplication unit, you might think "I'll spend 3 weeks on multiplication. I'll start by having students work with base-ten blocks. Next, I'll have them draw rectangles on graph paper...." and so on.

LT stands for Long Term. That's planning for your whole grading period. To plan for the Long Term, you look at all of the curriculum standards and when you're going to address them throughout the term. For example, if you're teaching science, you might think "I want to cover magnets by the end of October, then move on to life cycles for 3 weeks in November..." etc. For some subjects, like language arts, the standards overlap a LOT, so you don't plan them all individually - instead, you plan units or themes to address many standards at once.

Answer 2

What Is Meant By Planning

Answer 3

I had an idea, but I'm not a teacher, so I ran a Google search (why didn't you?)

It seems that the principle applies as much to business and government planning 'models' as it does to teaching, confirming my initial thought:

Short term/Mid term/Long term.

Answer 4

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