Assessment policies shared
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This week:
🧵 Assessment policies shared.
📝 Teach Like A Champion - What’s the same? What’s different?
🎥 How to use stories to make knowledge stick - (part 2) the grand narrative.
📅 Curriculum Thinking Week 2021 - save the date.
🧵 Assessment policies shared
There aren’t many things better than when schools come together to help each other out.
Richard Uffendell (DHT) is working with a group of school leaders to share assessment policies.
“Reviewing our assessment policy and systems. Want to create something more useful and up to date. Read Making Good Progress and various other literature. Anyone happy to share their policy and structure for assessment please? Frequency, how, where and when. TIA.”
📝 Teach Like A Champion - What’s the same? What’s different?
“I am a Lead Practitioner and a teacher of Mathematics. In my role I offer weekly teacher training clips across subjects and it is this role that prompted me to explore what the TLAC techniques look like in more detail across subjects.
“I became interested in the similarities and differences between subjects when implementing these techniques and gained awareness of a demand in the teaching community for more ‘practical’ examples of the techniques in use”.
Dave Tushingham reveals what he is creating to show these similarities and differences between subjects, which technique completely opened his eyes and what his resources look like in practice.
🎥 How to use stories to make knowledge stick - (part 2) the grand narrative
It’s possible a curriculum can more closely resemble episodes of the Simpsons than a box set of Game of Thrones; a series of stand alone lessons and units with little narrative tying them together.
Join us live in part 2 to learn:
What a less effective curriculum (with little narrative) might look like
What curriculum grand narrative actually means
What it looks like in practice
How you go about constructing a grand narrative
📅 Tues 15th June
🕕 6.00-7.15pm
📅 Curriculum Thinking Week 2021 - save the date
With TAGs behind you, restrictions easing and a new school year ahead, it’s time to celebrate your great curriculum work. 🙌
Together with members of our Curriculum Thinkers Community we’re hosting our first online curriculum conference - Curriculum Thinking Week 2021.
Bringing together 100+ schools, across 15 subjects and 5 days.
Member schools have nominated an incredible200+ subject leaders to present on every aspect of curriculum across all subjects.
To find out who’s presenting, what they’ll be sharing and on which days…
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