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Curriculum – with Didau and Robinson

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1. Why? What is the best? 11 Topics | 1 Quiz

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What is Culture? (video) View Topic

What is meant by ‘the best’? (video) View Topic

Tools for establishing ‘the best’ for inclusion in the curriculum View Topic

Powerful knowledge View Topic

Cultural literacy View Topic

Threshold concepts; what are the organising concepts of a discipline? View Topic

Is there a moral dimension to what’s best? View Topic

What are our intentions? View Topic

Culture as making meaning View Topic

The importance of meaning – Subjects/disciplines View Topic

Who is involved in designing the curriculum? View Topic

Section 1 Quiz – What is best?

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2. How to organise (what should come first?) 8 Topics

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The joined-up curriculum View Topic

Handing the baton on View Topic

Three choices: nuclear, editing, connecting View Topic

Start from scratch View Topic

Tweaking – what do we need to add/change? View Topic

What connections can we find in the content we already teach? View Topic

What are the organising principles? View Topic

Metaphors View Topic

3. What to include (breadth/depth/triangles/values) 5 Topics

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Depth is meaningless without sufficient breadth View Topic

Breadth must be more than ‘one damned thing after another’ View Topic

The T-shaped curriculum (upside down triangle) View Topic

What are our ‘wisest’ choices? View Topic

Coherence: Russian dolls; what knowledge organises other knowledge? View Topic

4. Dialectic – conversations/collisions/critiques/debates 7 Topics

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Curriculum as conversation View Topic

Some knowledge doesn’t ‘fit’ our models View Topic

Ambiguity, subjectivity, ensuring values are discussed View Topic

Making room for students to critique and question View Topic

Not mere opinion – the importance of judgement View Topic

Models of dialectic? View Topic

Formal and informal methods View Topic

5. Rhetoric – expression/voice/performance 3 Topics

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‘Passing the baton’ View Topic

A continuous and iterative process View Topic

The need for students to possess mental models of excellence View Topic

6. Enacted curriculum – turning it into lessons 13 Topics

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The map is not the territory (codification) View Topic

How are we going to structure it? View Topic

How much leeway should teachers/a teacher have? View Topic

Are there principles of effective instruction that can apply across the curriculum? View Topic

Input-Output View Topic

Training vs Education; Disciplines vs Arts View Topic

Lesson Plan Pro-Formas View Topic

Hedgehog vs Fox View Topic

Subject specific pedagogy View Topic

How far should the curriculum be affected by students’ encounters with it? View Topic

Teaching vs learning – what to do if you’ve taught it but they’ve not learned it (yet?) View Topic

Culture – ‘the way we do things here’ and tacit knowledge View Topic

Different pressures at different ages View Topic

7. Assessment – 21st C – WHAT SHOULD STUDENTS KNOW? HOW WILL KNOW IF THEY DO? 7 Topics

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How do you know if students have learned what you intended them to learn? View Topic

What to do when students haven’t learned View Topic

What inferences can we draw about the success of the curriculum? View Topic

How much of the curriculum do students need to remember? View Topic

Retrieval vs application View Topic

Using ‘21st century skills’ View Topic

Collaboration View Topic

8. Iterating – does it work? What’s changed? Etc. 5 Topics

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Evaluating the curriculum View Topic

Setting the criteria for success in advance View Topic

Opportunity cost View Topic

Permanence vs fluidity View Topic

MAID Audit View Topic

topic quiz

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