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Scheme of work

Meaning in education & teaching, with examples

nounCommon term

In education & teaching, scheme of work means: A plan that maps out the sequence of lessons, topics, activities and assessments for a subject over a unit, term or year.

In Turkish: ünitelendirilmiş yıllık plan, yıllık plan, ünite planı

How it is used

British term; American schools usually talk about unit plans, curriculum maps or pacing guides. A department writes or follows a scheme of work, and individual teachers build their lesson plans from it.

Example sentences

  1. The scheme of work gives six weeks to the Ottoman Empire and two to revision.

  2. We are rewriting the Year 8 scheme of work to include more practical experiments.

Common collocations

  • write a scheme of work
  • follow the scheme of work
  • department scheme of work
  • unit plan
  • lesson planA written outline of one lesson that shows what students should learn, the activities and materials the teacher will use, and roughly how long each stage will take.
  • curriculumThe whole set of subjects, content and skills that students are expected to learn at a school or level, including how the learning is organized and assessed.
  • syllabusA document that lists the topics, materials, assignments and assessment of one course, often with a week-by-week schedule.
  • pacingThe speed at which a lesson or course moves from one stage or topic to the next, and how well that speed fits the students.

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