This brand-new course will explore how to design an ambitious, broad and balanced, and inclusive curriculum. It will look at the importance of starting with a clear curriculum vision, and of planning and sequencing the curriculum towards clear end points using threshold concepts. You will consider how to embody high expectations of all pupils, using the curriculum to tackle social justice issues, moving learning beyond labels, turning the causes of disadvantage into classroom consequences to ensure a truly inclusive education.
This interactive course will also explore how to design a diverse curriculum that reflects pupils’ lived experiences and mirrors the school community. And it will articulate ways of moving pupils beyond those experiences, building world knowledge and cultural capital in order to fully and holistically prepare pupils for the next stages of their education and lives.
Who Should Attend
Headteachers, SLT, middle leaders and teachers in primary and secondary settings including:
- Senior leaders responsible for curriculum and timetabling
- Senior leaders responsible for teaching, learning and assessment
- Subject leaders / coordinators
- Teachers responsible for planning subject curriculums
Key Learning Objectives
The Benefits of attending:
- Delegates will be given a step-by-step process for designing an ambitious curriculum
- Delegates will explore how to plan and sequence the curriculum so that it helps pupils to develop ever-more complex schemata
- Delegates will understand how to use the curriculum to overcome social justice issues and tackle disadvantage
- Delegates will appreciate the importance of affording all pupils equitable access to the curriculum and of having high expectations of all
- Delegates will understand what effective teaching, learning and assessment look like in practice
Facilitator
Matt Bromley is an education writer and advisor with over twenty years’ experience in teaching and leadership including as a secondary school headteacher and principal, FE college vice principal, and MAT director. He is a public speaker, trainer, and school improvement lead, and a primary school governor. He remains a practising teacher, currently working in secondary, FE and HE settings. Matt writes for various newspapers and magazines, is the author of numerous best-selling books on education, including a trilogy on curriculum design and delivery, and regularly speaks at national and international conferences and events.
