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In October, alongside a trip to see my daughters in Australia, I arranged to visit in person several people from the education world in both Australia and New Zealand who I had met previously, mostly online. They in turn arranged various visits and meetings where I was able to meet with many others. Alongside this…
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Anyone reading this and already familiar with my previous series of four blogs from last August https://stuartphysics.co.uk/2024/08/01/improving-education-curriculum-explanations-professionalism-and-more-part-1/ or from the recommendations I made in my PhD thesis https://stax.strath.ac.uk/concern/theses/w66344189 (Farmer, 2024a) will know I would like to see teachers using research and evidence-informed approaches with enquiry-as-stance-based professional learning embedded in their practice (Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 2009). …
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In the previous three blogs in this series, I have considered several factors important to curriculum reform, both at a national institutional curriculum level and at the classroom curriculum level of individual teachers. But how might we go about more effective curriculum reform in the future? Complexity and expertise I think it is important for…
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In the previous parts of this series of blogs, I explored the importance of good explanations in teaching and the potential benefits of good-quality textbooks and how good quality curriculum and teaching resources, including textbooks, might be developed. In this blog I will explore aspects of teacher professionalism and how this relates to these topics…
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In the first of this series of blogs I discussed the importance of good explanations in teaching and the potential benefits of good-quality textbooks. Here I explore how good quality curriculum and teaching resources, including textbooks, might be developed. Curriculum development Curriculum and curriculum-making exist at different levels. Deng (2020) describes different levels of curriculum. …
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