Well, yeah - WHAT about lesson plans??

Don't get me wrong - I absolutely support this holistic business of lesson planning. I believe that:

- efficient teachers should practice this activity daily, either planning the lessons for the current day, or the following day;

- efficient teachers should base their 'lesson planning' on intensive preparation which needs to take place weeks, possibly months before the lesson. This, in most, contexts, would be called 'planning', but we will call it 'lesson scripting' to avoid confusion.

- efficient teachers should focus this 'lesson planning' on purely pedagogic aspects, tailoring their activities, their style and their delivery to each particular class. This should be skilled, challenging and interesting work, and it needs to be done pretty much at the last minute (so you can take the previous lesson's experience into account). The duller, more process-focused aspects of lesson preparation - lesson scripting - should be done well in advance, removed from time-pressure, in a stress free environment....

... AND here's the thing: I am going to say nothing more about this wonderful business of lesson planning, which I hold in such high regard.  There are shed-fulls of excellent books and resources to tell you how to do it.  What I am going to tell you is how to do the preparatory work - so your lesson planning can be done in the time available; and how to tackle the 'other stuff', which gets in the way of good lesson planning.