Imagination is more important than knowledge
Albert Einstein
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ALAN PARKINSONFREELANCE
GEOGRAPHER
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WHAT DO I KNOW ?
TEACHER & HoDPARENT
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT LEADERAUTHOR
CONSULTANTPRIMARY GEOGRAPHY CHAMPION
CHARTERED GEOGRAPHER3Sunday, 2 December 12
GA NC GROUPCurriculum Consultation 2011-13
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WHAT DO I KNOW ?
TEACHER & HoDPARENT
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT LEADERAUTHOR
CONSULTANTPRIMARY GEOGRAPHY CHAMPION
CHARTERED GEOGRAPHER5Sunday, 2 December 12
CURRICULUMWhat is it ?
cur·ric·u·lum (k-rky-lm)n. pl. cur·ric·u·la (-l) or cur·ric·u·lums
1. All the courses of study offered by an educational institution.
2. A group of related courses, often in a special field of study
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LOOKING FORWARD ... OR BACK ?
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CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT LEADER
What did I spend my time doing ?
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“One aim of education: to be able to think for yourself, and act for others - let's build a
curriculum from that ..”Tim Brighouse
London Festival of EducationNovember 2012
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GOVE AT LFE12
“More often than not children are bored in class..”
“You can't have education without externally set assessment otherwise it's
just playing”
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MIKE TOMLINSON When designing a curriculum...
Start with what you want students to know and understand and the skills you want the students to
develop....
Gove is starting with the assessment...
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Students in Finland sit no mandatory exams until the age of
17-19. Teacher based assessments are used by schools to monitor
progress and these are not graded, scored or compared, but instead are
descriptive and utilised in a formative manner to inform
feedback and assessment for learning.
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Courage, Curiosity, Discipline,
Experimentation, Exploration, Imagination,
Sociability and ThoughtfulnessGuy Claxton’s Big 8 aptitudes
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A DOCUMENT
TEACHERS ARE THE CURRICULUM MAKERS
PROFESSOR DAVID LAMBERT
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METAPHORSSCAFFOLDINGROUTE MAPSKELETON
STATUS QUOPALIMPSEST
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"Should be compulsory reading for all university geography students" Professor Danny Dorling
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“Experience is the overcoming of perils. The word “experience” shares a common root (per) with
“experiment,” “expert,” and “perilous.”
To experience in the active sense requires that one venture forth into the unfamiliar and experience with the elusive and the uncertain. To become an expert one must
dare to confront the perils of the new.”
Yi-Fu Tuan 1977
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HANDING OVER CONTROL
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Giving permission...
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SOME THOUGHTS
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First, using this resource requires specialist subject knowledge to realise the educational benefits of using it. Second, it requires the teacher to decide on a sound way
to use the resource . Third, it requires the teacher to able to 'place' the
resource really effectively - thinking about what prior knowledge would be helpful and how to follow it through and build on the understanding gained through its use.
Curriculum thinking is about having clear purposes and goals.
CURRICULUM ARTEFACTS
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CONTENT & CONTEXTNo more ‘CASE STUDIES’....
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Noel JenkinsFANTASY KS3
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Teaching & Learning
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Geographical ‘lens’
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“fieldplay”
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Geographical enquiry
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Freedom/Risk30Sunday, 2 December 12
ExploreExperimentExperienceExpertise
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M:E CURRICULUMMission Based
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BADGESLearning badges e.g. Mozilla...
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CURRICULUM ESSENTIALS / ARTEFACTS
Give me five....I’ll be leaving at 1.30....
Place / Space / Scale / Environment / Sustainability / Interdependence /
Consumption / Futures / Urbanisation / Technology / Pedagogy / Mobile learning /
Resourcing / CPD / Collaboration / Networks
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