Curriculum This Week: 🚀 Top Tips for Medium Term Planning

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Jan 20, 2021

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And now to what’s happening in curriculum this week…

Webinars

Thank you for everyone who joined us yesterday for E-ACT’s How to super-charge workforce development by transforming your curriculum (replay here).

The resources shared by the E-ACT team are available here >

In particular:

Hints and tips for medium-term plans

Guidance for senior and subject leaders for creating effective medium-term plans based on common feedback Lee and Andy had seen in first drafts. Includes a bank of annotated examples of composite and component structure.

Workshop:

Join us tonight at 6:00pm for a casual workshop with other curriculum leaders to:

Share thoughts and your current curriculum challenges.
Discussion - how to implement the learning in your context.

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Next webinar:

Join us next week (Tue, 02/02) for Ark John Keats’ Departmental Co-planning Meetings: making intellectual prep more efficient.

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New Resources

This week we’ve pooled together curriculum resources for History (big thanks to Ed Durbin of Yate Academy and Colin McCormick of Alsop High).

And Geography (big thanks to Joe Edgar of Abraham Darby Academy).

Click on the links above to get access to the documents.

We have also added some more curriculum resources in RE, PE, Science and English. For a list of all the resources we gathered so far, click here >

Articles

Remote learning: Thahmina Begum (secondary school headteacher) shared 8 TLAC strategies for getting students cognitively active. Read about them here >