Effective planning is the most important precondition for effective teaching. Teachers seem to have been putting more efforts into the visible written plans than the invisible plans for capacity-building. The author of this paper did a research on the metacognition of the English teachers in a university. The research showed the problems regarding invisible teaching planning,including 1) teachers' lack of metacognitive knowledge of the teaching,the students,and the invisible preparation for a successful class,2) negative metacognitive experi...