This weeks slow chat is based upon a presentation given by Lead Science teacher, Penny Nash. (RCCS_Science)
She gave a presentation drawing on the work of Tom Sherrington, Clare Sealy and Mark Enser about Powerful Curriculum.
Here are some of the main takeaways from the presentation for us to discuss on Twitter during the coming week:
- How do we go about raising standards?
- How do we plan for curriculum and development?
- Why do we educate? Has this changed over time?
- How do we go about addressing the attainment gap in designing Curriculum for Wales?
- How do we ensure we are building advanced subject specific knowledge upon acquired knowledge?
- What is Powerful Knowledge and what does it look like?
- Why is building schema through designing sequences of learning not as simple as creating a Scheme of Work or list of topics to be covered?
- What are the dangers is 'assuming prior knowledge'?
- What are the dangers in using terminology within a narrow context without addressing other uses in common use?
- How do we support learners to make decisions based on the knowledge they have acquired?
- How do we design and produce a Powerful Curriculum?
STEP 1 - Why? - What is the big picture?
STEP 2 - What? - What is the fundamental knowledge?
STEP 3 - How? - What is the structure and design including mapping of the connections between topics and concepts?
If you have any thoughts, questions, observations, comments or suggestions for further research/reading, please join in this week's slow chat using. #15MFCymru
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