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The Royal Society of Arts Opening Minds project was launched in 1999. In conjunction with Creative Partnerships they challenge us to question the validity of subjects. They advocate a competency led approach with negotiated learning targets.
Five broad competences are suggested for education in the 21st century: - For learning
- For citizenship
- For relating to people
- For managing situations
- For managing information
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| | Creative Partnerships - the Government's flagship creative learning programme, designed to develop the skills of young people across England, raising their aspirations and achievements, and opening up more opportunities for their futures. | Key principles that should guide practice. The primary curriculum should be:
- Engaging – learners are excited, intrigued, fascinated, enthused by what they learn and do
- Productive – the outcomes of our work together are things of value in which we all take pride
- Sociable – learners learn, explore and create together
- Human- the curriculum explores matters of human significance and celebrates common humanity
Click on the links below for further information: There are five main content themes in “Building learning Power” - About learning – learning and life and how we learn
- Resilience – about resilience, absorption, managing distractions, noticing, perseverance
- Resourcefulness – questioning, making links, imagining, reasoning, capitalising
- Reciprocity – interdependence, collaboration, listening, empathy, imitation
- Reflectiveness – planning, revising, distilling, metalearning
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| | Teach Thinking - a website with many links to facilitate “teach thinking” | The International Primary Curriculum – Fieldwork Education manages schools for Shell International all around the world. The International Primary Curriculum (IPC) was designed for these schools. The criteria it sets out to meet includes - The muscle economy is going, the knowledge economy is here
- Lifelong careers are going, portfolio working is here
- National boundaries are diminishing, internationalisation is here
- There are new ways of learning
- People need values
- Teachers want to think about learning more than anything else
- Teaching and learning should be fun
Click on the link below for further information: Excellence and Enjoyment Customising the Curriculum The QCA suggest the curriculum can be customised by:
- Adapting a scheme of work
- Combining units in one scheme of work with another
- Embedding aspects of English or Mathematics in another subject
The QCA recommends that only two or at the most three subjects should be combined as otherwise the new unit becomes unmanageable Click on the links below for further information from the QCA:
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| | Email: info@qca.org.uk if you have any questions about any aspect of curriculum development |
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| | QCA – the New Secondary Curriculum - to find out more about the secondary curriculum, to see the new programmes of study or to read the supporting materials to help develop the new curriculum |
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| | Schools Council UK - working to help ensure that the views of learners of all ages contribute to curriculum development | |
