4 principles of curriculum design.
And why subjects behave differently across the school.
Happy New Year Curriculum Thinkers! š
Meeting the needs of all students is hard. They donāt bring the same experiences, prior knowledge and performance levels to your lessons. They all have different needs. So here areā¦
4ļøā£ principles to consider when designing resources to help all your students do their best.
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Difficulty escalation š
Logically faultless communication š¬
Variation theoryš”
Eh! What does that mean?
Good question! Hereās a tasterā¦
Ok, so what does that look like in practice?
Catch up with Naveen Rizviās (National Lead of Maths) session and resources from before the holidays to find outš
Not a maths teacher? Neither am I and these principles definitely improved my thinking in my subject.
On the subject of appreciating othersāā¦
šŗ "That won't work in my subject!": Things you need to know about managing subjects you don't teach.
When developing curriculum it can be easy to assume other subjects are just like yours. But they arenāt. The way theyāre planned, communicated, delivered and assessed is different.
With that comes a risk senior leaders and faculty leaders, who lead a number of subjects, will ask subject leaders to do things that, at best, aren't helpful, and at worst, are damaging.
Learn how subjects behave differently across the school, or within your faculty, and what you can do about.Ā
(Or use this session to help you explain to your line manager how their initiatives could be improved to meet the needs of your subject.)
š Tues 11th Jan.
š 6pm.
š Subject specific assessment models.
So far weāve got subject specific assessment resources for:
šØ Art, š English, š Geography, šŖšø MFL, šļø History, šµ Music, š Drama, š§¬ Science.
If youāve been working on assessment in:
š„ Computer Science, āļø D&T, šø PE and āļø PSHE/Citizenship, help out your fellow subject leaders.
Alec Waters (DHT, Ribston Hall High School), whoās new to the community, has wasted no time getting into the spirit of things.
Heās shared their whole school assessment policy and would love to hear you thoughtsā¦
If you need a hand accessing any resources in this email, hit reply and weāll get it sorted.
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