New Futurelab Report

Another Twitter tip off is the latest Futurelab report.
This is a report on Curriculum and Teaching Innovation.

Some interesting sections, which I will need to consider and make connections with the work that we do at the GA, and the various links that we make with our CPD.
Here are a few sections from the summary as a flavour...

A school curriculum is intended to provide children and young people with the knowledge and skills required to lead successful lives. Today, there is growing concern that the taught curriculum needs to be reconsidered and redesigned. This is reflected in a House of Commons inquiry into the National Curriculum which has concluded that it is too prescribed, incoherently arranged, and overloaded with content.

The use of the word ‘innovation’ in discussions about the school curriculum and classroom teaching practice has become widespread. It is the keyword in much policymaking across all public services. 

What is a curriculum for at this time? It comprises a challenging selection of subjects that help children and young people understand the world. It highlights skills necessary for learning throughout life, as well as for work, and for one’s personal development and well-being. But a curriculum is also political. Decisions about ‘what’s in’ and ‘what’s out’ change from time to time depending on political needs and aspirations. A curriculum fundamentally establishes a vision of the kind of society we want in the future, and the kind of people we want in it: it decides what the ‘good life’ is for individuals and for society as a whole. As such, it’s not always possible for everyone to agree on what a curriculum should be.

"Choices" again....

It also looks at the idea of Building Schools for the Future

At a time when secondary schools are being redesigned and reconstructed through the Building Schools for the Future programme and primaries are approaching their own rebuilding schemes, it is essential that school leaders and teachers are involved in redesigning the educational experience of students too. What happens in classrooms produces the architecture for any school of the future. Bricks and mortar cannot transform education.

The report also looks at the issue of Personalisation, an important factor in lesson planning. This connection with young people is also an important part of our Living Geography approach.
More to come after the manifesto launch as well...

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