An effective SOfW
Underpin a comprehensive learning experience for the student
Requires teachers to work together to plan a coherent programme
Help teachers plan common activities for example work exprience visits and visiting seakers etc
Help teachers plan resources
Help teachers create their indvidual lesson plans
Help new teachers
Required teachers to think about the essential...
Key points
Should be constructed by teams of teachers
Should be held centrally
In no particular order list of content in an effective SofW
Key areas for assessment and learning
Time lines
Resources needed
Clear focus
Flexible content
Scafolding perhaps?
Learning objectives
Practical ideas and required practicals
Homework
References to relevant risk assesments
reference to curiculum support materials
Outline of the progress expected from it
Assesment opportunity
ICT oppurtunities
Educational Change Models.
see link
'tuckmans fight right video - shown by Keith Merrick
Unfreeze it, change model, refreeze .
Skillbeck situational analysis model, its cyclic, yu focus in on yur sitation or the situation you find yourself in.
you analyse, decide what you will do, deliver the thing, and then evaluate and go back to the beginning.
if you apply this to the SOW plan covered, then this is a useful way of pushing curriculum through.
Tuckmans summary
Feedback an thoughts:
Teachers will want to build teams, tuckman comes up with the idea of a blocker,
Tuckman has blockers which metaphorically represent the idea of "going around"
Lewin: Lewin unfreeze - change - refreeze
The change is the differentiation, can be implemented in one lesson. Its the idea of starting with an idea, working towards it then refreezing in new knowledge?
implements skill beck within it.
Skillbeck
Cyclic model using evaluative
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curriculum reform. every subject has changed.
applied A level used to be in Hbridge. then they replaced with alternative qualification. the slide was the original plan of what they were going to do.
see spec, see guides, and plan backward.
A set of criteria.
RESEARCH examination website.
delegate to other memebers of the team.
Design of content. the long term plan.
You can visually work out how long you are going to spend on each theme etc.
advantage for us is that
allows HOD to monitor the progress through SOW
Design of SofL
reference to long term plan within.
digital resources are invaluable where you can share information and resources so that all classes are essentially being taught in the same way or through the same projects etc.
CONCLUSION
analyse
plan
support
implement
continuously review in the cycle
300 word summary of key issues related to planning and curriculum design.
how often are SOW reviewed... dependent on how well it works.
