Using theories of task design in curriculum planning

Perspective Article

Published on: September 12, 2018

Curriculum

7 min read

The importance of the curriculum in effective teaching Walter Doyle’s seminal paper ‘Effective teaching’, written over thirty years ago (Doyle, 1985), argues that in order to assess the effectiveness of teaching, we have to take into account the curriculum and pedagogy. At a recent conference, Daniel Muijs, Ofsted’s Head of Research, made a similar point and also observed that research has now brought us greater clarity on the evaluation of teaching quality. Muijs suggests that the new Ofsted handbook on the nature of the ‘instructional leadership of curriculum and pedagogy’ offers a more reliable indicator that schools are doing what they can to improve the quality of teaching (Muijs, 2018). As teachers and leaders of teachers, the time is ripe therefore to think about the role of curriculum design and how it supports ‘the collective teacher effectiveness – all the teachers in the school’ (Muijs, 2018). ‘There’s nothing so practical as a good the

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