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What is curriculum?​

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Evaluate the pros and cons of your curriculum?

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Apply Eisner's model to your own curricula considering how each different type is applicable.

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The saber-tooth curriculum | Bill Scott’s blog

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I have been searching for a while now for a web-version of the Saber-Tooth Curriculum. I remember this from my teacher training, those long years ago, when teachers were encouraged (that is, required) to think about curriculum – as opposed to just schemes of work and lesson plans. The source is: Benjamin HRW (1939) Saber‐tooth Curriculum, Including Other Lectures in the History of Paleolithic Education. McGraw‐Hill.

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Curriculum is a sequence of planned experiences where students practice their skills.

Students work towards their final exam and or FMP.

The curriculum has to cover certain learning objectives, assessment objectives.

Series of modules that they complete throughout the year.

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Pros - No exams so the students are less stressed about their projects.

Cons - with no exams it is hard to know if they retain their knowledge through out the year

Pros - Them doping course work shows their development and how they have grown.

Cons - UAL curriculums aren't often the most thought out when they are written.

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Pro - It allows us to be creative so we aren't just stuck to texts the whole time we can used videos and images to make it more interesting.

Con - everything rides on the two end of year exams so they have done a whole years work which boils down to those two days.

Pro - No set texts within the lift GCSE resist you get the choice to choose the texts to teach the students. It allows creative and get the students to engage in a different way.

Con - The GCSE re sit course have to go through the whole year again.

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Pros -Material from the first year is carried over into the next year so it keeps a logical progression.

Cons - the curriculum in a bit ambiguous and unclear. Not clear enough on what they will be evaluated on in the second year.

Pros - Most of the material is quite engaging and quite easy to get a conversation going in the class

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Pros - The curriculum is set and therefore it doesn't need a lot of work from the teacher it is more about how the teacher presents the information.

Cons - The end of year exams are so strict that the students need to remember exact phrases there is no give if they get their wording wrong.

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Certain skills that are expected of the students such as academic writing in their course work, some students aren't in English classes or struggle with English so are at a disadvantage and can slip between the cracks. Tutorial should have times where maybe an English teach joins to help with any skills that need to be refreshed.

some skills are brushed past so quickly that students only get a glimpse of what they can do but we don't have the time or resources to teach them these skills such as videography. This is something the students will likely never experience here so they won't know if it's the direction they want to go in.

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The one year GCSE course has expectations of the students. One of the expectations is that students have a good standard of spelling punctuation and grammar. Within the curriculum there is no opportunity to teach SPAG skills and it is a marked requirement of paper one and paper two.

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The core soft skills are being taught but are not part of the "formal " curriculum. Also the social aspects of working on practical's are being transferred but again are not a formal part of what is expected. As most students go on to University it would be great to see a little more open ended projects that involve aspects of research and real life science experience.