In recent years, there has been much debate about whether schools should aim to teach students generic learning skills, or whether they should focus instead on ...
The Rise – the first school to be opened by Ambitious about Autism Schools Trust, a multi-academy trust for students with an EHCP (education, health and care pl...
The when, how and why of assessment are ultimately dependent on what is being assessed, namely the curriculum. Like many schools, we spent a lot of time redesig...
A knowledge organiser (KO) sets out the important, useful and powerful knowledge on a topic on a single page (Kirby, 2015). With the content demands of new cour...
This article is based on an original research article published in the International Journal of Early Years Education (Boyd, 2014a). The full article can be fou...
I don’t need to tell you that teachers face a myriad of problems as they design a curriculum, develop a scheme of work or plan a lesson. The list of requirement...
In the summer of 2010, I spent three weeks in a kindergarten in New Zealand as part of the research for my doctoral thesis. I was there to gain an insight into ...
Since the introduction of the new National Curriculum in 2014, our school’s aim has been to design a curriculum that meets the needs of the students at our scho...
The importance of the curriculum in effective teaching
Walter Doyle’s seminal paper ‘Effective teaching’, written over thirty years ago (Doyle, 1985), argues...
In 2017, the Department for Education published a report that examined the progress of evidenced-informed teaching in England. The findings suggest that despite...
