When the curriculum lacks coherence, it is both harder to teach and harder for students to locate and place their new knowledge.
The notion of curriculum coh...
Not all pupils arrive in the music classroom as novices, and some bring expert knowledge of a variety of musical traditions. This has important implicati...
When the new specifications for GCSE English were published, the focus was on how to cover the content of the course in two years and how the skills of analysis...
Religious education (RE) has been described as ‘an uneasy coalition of several disciplines in undisciplined competition with each other’ (Chater and Erricker, 2...
The context of modern languages teaching
It is easy to argue that modern language teaching in English-speaking countries is in crisis. In England, the supply o...
The Religious Education Council has warned that without good religious education (RE) teachers, religious discrimination could rise. Yet, 2017–18 saw a third of...
In the primary curriculum, geography is referred to, unsurprisingly, as the ‘umbrella’ subject because of its capacity to make tangible and effective connection...
Designing a deep and durable primary mathematics curriculum
By KEVIN HUBBARD
Following a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developmen...
“Nature is written in mathematical language.”
Galileo Galilei
Background
In 2015, biology teachers began teaching a new A level curriculum, which whilst not ...
"As teacher training in the UK becomes increasingly school-based, largely as a result of government requirements, the question of whether and in what sense ther...
Writing about curriculum development in 1975, Lawrence Stenhouse (Stenhouse, 1975) noted that the task of educational institutions is to make ‘available to the ...
I am a confirmed, incurable Bardolator. My first brush with Shakespeare was a striking promenade performance of Macbeth at the Arcola Theatre when I was thirtee...
In most biology departments, a spiral curriculum can be seen in schemes of work (SOW) and in the point order of exam board specifications. For good reason. A su...
In September 2017, Dom met his first cohort of secondary PGCE students. He was delivering the subject-specific module, Teaching and Learning in Science. James w...
It is little surprise that, with so much riding on the recruitment and quality of new teachers, the nature and content of Postgraduate Initial Teacher Education...
