As well as general good practice, the discussion looks at curriculum design in light of Ofsted’s 2019 Education Inspection Framework and its renewed focus on curriculum intent, implementation and impact.
We discuss the steps that school leaders can take to ensure an effective, relevant and coherent curriculum. Other themes include:
- Ensuring the curriculum is relevant to your locality and context
- Creating a curriculum vision
- The hidden curriculum (beyond the national curriculum)
- Achieving a broad and balanced curriculum
- Identifying end-points and threshold concepts
- Diversity and inclusion
- Supporting teachers and subject co-ordinators
- Evaluating your curriculum
- Managing time constraints and workload
Hosted by National Leader of Education Helen Frostick, our guests for this discussion are:
- Matt Bromley is an education advisor and author with more than 20 years’ experience in teaching including as a headteacher.
- Laura McPhee, headteacher, Loughborough Primary School in Lambeth, London
- Mark Hartley, school improvement advisor and education author.
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