CPD pack: Curriculum design
The aim of our CPD packs is to support members in further exploring the themes raised in an issue of our journal, Impact. CPD packs provide guidance and resources to help facilitate staff CPD based on key articles from each issue.
This pack is related to the following articles:
- ‘What is a ‘knowledge-rich’ curriculum?‘, written by Tom Sherrington
- ‘The Learning Skills curriculum: Raising the bar, closing the gap at GCSE‘, written by James Mannion, Kate McAllister and Neil Mercer.
The packs are designed to be flexible so they can be used and adapted to deliver a one-off session or a longer series of CPD opportunities. The facilitator notes contain suggestions for how to shorten or extend activities depending on whether you wish to provide a brief snapshot of the research or explore the concepts over a longer time period. We recognise that preparing and resourcing high quality CPD in schools and colleges is both time consuming and expensive, and we hope that these CPD packs will help reduce teachers’ and school leaders’ workload as well as providing a supportive framework enabling all school members to facilitate CPD confidently.
The pack
The materials below allow teachers to familiarise themselves with the definitions of, and differences between, a ‘knowledge-rich’ curriculum and a ‘skills-based’ curriculum. There will be an opportunity to consider the advantages and disadvantages of each approach and identify how they can be applied to school curriculum and lesson planning.
This pack contains the following:
- Presentation slides
- Facilitator guidance
- A copy of the Sherrington article
- A copy of the Mannion et al. article
Click on the links above to download each resource.
If you make use of this CPD pack in your setting, we would welcome your feedback.
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This article was published in September 2018 and reflects the terminology and understanding of research and evidence in use at the time. Some terms and conclusions may no longer align with current standards. We encourage readers to approach the content with an understanding of this context.
