@pacific At my kids' #PrimarySchool in London, where I was a governor for several years, we had a rare project-based approach to every term that I would love to see used more widely.

There is an overall learning question or theme, and then subjects could often be based around the overall topic, leading to a better understanding and a more enthusiastic approach to both teaching and learning.

And this is still within the requirements of the #NationalCurriculum.

E.g. Year 4 map: https://primarysite-prod-sorted.s3.amazonaws.com/thornhill-primary-school-london/UploadedDocument/7e305c21-3f61-49ff-85e8-c242470d853e/curriculum-map-year-4-jan-2022-23.pdf

Also "modess" of learning are presented as a Learning Toolbox: https://www.thornhill.islington.sch.uk/thornhill-learning-toolbox-1/

3) Some teachers are notoriously capable of critical free-thinking (I count myself as one of those), so they had to be cowed and broken by another strategy. That strategy was #Ofsted and the #NationalCurriculum.
Can you imagine what it's like for an experienced, fulltime teacher or headteacher to be rubbished and humiliated by some idiotic "expert" appointed by the government, who may not even have ever been a qualified teacher?

"A former head teacher is working with celebrities to promote the teaching of Black History in schools across the UK - and not just during Black History Month.

From Les Ferdinand to Lord Paul Boateng, a number of Black-British celebrities have shown their support for a non-profit, national initiative - which strives to embed Black History into the curriculum"

The usual suspects will be frothing at the mouth in 3..2..1

#BlackHistory #NationalCurriculum #UK
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/les-ferdinand-links-former-head-29367238

@kerriesmith I don't disagree up to a point (i taught in public system for 38yrs) but the cards are so stacked against kids like ours.

Money doesn't "make" a school good but it sure helps with resources, incl staffing: educ support staff for the kids that need them, specialist teachers for the smaller Subject areas (literature, languages, law, drama that are too expensive to run for Yrs11/12), music equipment that works, computers that are sufficient in number for all students, sports equipment, money available to pay for struggling families to take kids on excursions and camps... i could go on endlessly.

Public schools would do SO much for all areas of curriculum with the govt money that is siphoned off for private schools. Those schools that already get payment from parents. The wealthy effectively pay fees but then get public (their) money back again in the form of tax payers money. Is řeally immoral and represents $$ millions every year.
#AEU #AusEdu #AustralianSchoolsAndU18s #Nationalcurriculum #AusLabour

Deeply concerned that 40% of students in Australia are in private schools. They get the lions share of govt money. Tax payers money. MY MONEY and it's simply wrong.

AUS is slipping further back in the PISA global educational ranking against countries like Finnland Germany Sweden, where there is huge investment in govt schools and private schools are generally frowned upon.

Only when the vast and committed majority of parents have children enrolled in govt schools, will standards improve.

That Aus schools receive govt funding at all is a monstrous malpractice and should stop if we want standards in education hete to improve. #AusEdu #AEU #Nationalcurriculum #AusLabour

Deeply concerned that 40% of Ayumi in Australia are in private schools. They get the lions share of govt money. Tax payers money. MY MONEY and it's simply wrong.

AUS is slipping further back in the PISA global educational ranking against countries like Finnland Germany Sweden, where there is huge investment in govt schools and private schools are generally frowned upon.

Only when the vast and committed majority of parents have children enrolled in govt schools, will standards improve.

That Aus schools receive govt funding at all is a monstrous malpractice and should stop if we want standards in education hete to improve. #AusEdu #AEU #Nationalcurriculum

True story . . .

When I did my teacher training (for secondary school) I had to spend one week at a primary school observing how they work. In one class I watched, a male teacher (not so common in primary years) picked up a ruler, and pointed it at a tedious student. In an exasperated voice he said . . .

"At the end of this ruler there is an idiot!"

"Which end Sir?"

(teacher training according to ^Paul)

#education #primary #NationalCurriculum

So, the English government have concerns about ‘radical teachers’ who communicate ‘off curriculum’ ideas that influence young people? That’s pretty stale news… #education #teachers #TeacherLife #Educators #EducationUK #curriculum #NationalCurriculum @education @EducationMatters https://www.britannica.com/biography/Socrates/The-publics-hatred-of-Socrates

So, the English government have concerns about ‘radical teachers’ who communicate ‘off curriculum’ ideas that influence young people? That’s pretty stale news… #education #teachers #TeacherLife #Educators #EducationUK #curriculum #NationalCurriculum @education @EducationMatters https://www.britannica.com/biography/Socrates/The-publics-hatred-of-Socrates