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The 6-step process of curriculum design… Our approach to curriculum design – as outlined in the book School & College Curriculum Design: Intent – follows a six-step process as follows… The fifth step towards designing an effective curriculum is to define excellence so that our curriculum is ambitious for all but that each pupil and studentContinue reading “Curriculum design: Step 5 – Define excellence”

The 6-step process of curriculum design… Our approach to curriculum design – as outlined in the book School & College Curriculum Design: Intent – follows a six-step process as follows… The fourth step towards designing an effective curriculum is to identify the waypoints. Once the destination and the starting points are known, the curriculum must carveContinue reading “Curriculum design: Step 4 – Identify the way-points”

The 6-step process of curriculum design… Our approach to curriculum design – as outlined in the book School & College Curriculum Design: Intent – follows a six-step process as follows… The third step towards designing an effective curriculum is to assess starting points and this, broadly speaking, takes two forms: the starting points of the taughtContinue reading “Curriculum design: Step 3 – Assess the starting points”

The 6-step process of curriculum design… Our approach to curriculum design – as outlined in the book School & College Curriculum Design: Intent – follows a six-step process as follows… The second step towards designing an effective curriculum is to set the destination which is about identifying what we want all pupils and students to knowContinue reading “Curriculum design: Step 2 – Set the destination”

The 6-step process of curriculum design… Our approach to curriculum design – as outlined in the book School & College Curriculum Design: Intent – follows a six-step process as follows… The first step towards designing an effective curriculum is to agree the vision. This requires each school and college to consult upon and communicate a sharedContinue reading “Curriculum design: Step 1 – Agree the vision”

What are meta-analyses? A meta-analysis is a way of collating the outcomes of similar studies and converting the data into a common metric, then combining these in order to report an estimate which represents the impact or influence of interventions in that given area. There are a number of advantages of meta-analyses when conducted asContinue reading “The problem with meta-analyses”

This article was written for SecEd Magazine.  I moved house last month. Those who claim it’s one of the most stressful things you can do in life are not wrong. The solicitor’s bill alone was enough to send my blood pressure through the roof. But, contrary to popular opinion, the stress does not dissipate theContinue reading “Working memory – lightening the cognitive load for pupils”

This article was written for SecEd magazine.   Aristotle once said that “excellence is not an act but a habit”, and so it is with teaching: the foundations of a successful classroom are built of routines, regularly repeated and reinforced. Without this essential ground-work the edifice of learning would simply crumble. Let us take aContinue reading “Early Career Teachers: Classroom rules and routines”