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...
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...
