Well.
It's all about Planning, isn't it?
Umm... no, but planning is really, really important.
But... there's more good news: TM4T does not involve any complicated planning techniques, or even many simple techniques. If you want to draw Gantt chart, I'm afraid you're on the wrong site. Our basic planning technique is:
a) decide what you are going to do
b) write it down.
So, it's simple, but it's really really important. And worryingly easy to get wrong.
Start reading about it here.
In TM4T, all planning-to-teach is delivered using the FT2T method, and within that, all lesson planning is done using the magpieplanning technique. This is so important it merits its own website. Which is here.