31st November 2012 Gradbach, Derbyshire

1. Imagination is more
important than knowledge
Albert Einstein
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2. ALAN
PARKINSON
FREELANCE
GEOGRAPHER
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3. WHAT DO I KNOW ?
TEACHER & HoD
PARENT
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT LEADER
AUTHOR
CONSULTANT
PRIMARY GEOGRAPHY CHAMPION
CHARTERED GEOGRAPHER
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4. GA NC GROUP
Curriculum Consultation 2011-13
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5. WHAT DO I KNOW ?
TEACHER & HoD
PARENT
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT LEADER
AUTHOR
CONSULTANT
PRIMARY GEOGRAPHY CHAMPION
CHARTERED GEOGRAPHER
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6. CURRICULUM
What is it ?
cur·ric·u·lum (k-rky-lm)
n. pl. cur·ric·u·la (-l) or cur·ric·u·lums
1. All the courses of study offered by an educational
institution.
2. A group of related courses, often in a special field of
study
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7. LOOKING
FORWARD ...
OR BACK ?
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8. CURRICULUM
DEVELOPMENT LEADER
What did I spend my time doing ?
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9. “One aim of education: to be
able to think for yourself, and
act for others - let's build a
curriculum from that ..”
Tim Brighouse
London Festival of Education
November 2012
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10. GOVE AT LFE12
“More often than not children are
bored in class..”
“You can't have education without
externally set assessment otherwise it's
just playing”
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11. MIKE TOMLINSON
When designing a curriculum...
Start with what you want students to know and
understand and the skills you want the students to
develop....
Gove is starting with the assessment...
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12. Students in Finland sit no
mandatory exams until the age of
17-19. Teacher based assessments
are used by schools to monitor
progress and these are not graded,
scored or compared, but instead are
descriptive and utilised in a
formative manner to inform
feedback and assessment for
learning.
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13. Courage, Curiosity,
Discipline,
Experimentation,
Exploration, Imagination,
Sociability and
Thoughtfulness
Guy Claxton’s Big 8 aptitudes
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14. A DOCUMENT
TEACHERS ARE THE CURRICULUM
MAKERS
PROFESSOR DAVID LAMBERT
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15. METAPHORS
SCAFFOLDING
ROUTE MAP
SKELETON
STATUS QUO
PALIMPSEST
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16. "Should be compulsory reading for all university
geography students" Professor Danny Dorling
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17. “Experience is the overcoming of perils. The word
“experience” shares a common root (per) with
“experiment,” “expert,” and “perilous.”
To experience in the active sense requires that one
venture forth into the unfamiliar and experience with the
elusive and the uncertain. To become an expert one must
dare to confront the perils of the new.”
Yi-Fu Tuan 1977
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18. HANDING OVER
CONTROL
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19. Giving permission...
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20. 20
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21. SOME THOUGHTS
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22. First, using this resource requires specialist subject
knowledge to realise the educational benefits of using it.
Second, it requires the teacher to decide on a sound way
to use the resource .
Third, it requires the teacher to able to 'place' the
resource really effectively - thinking about what prior
knowledge would be helpful and how to follow it through
and build on the understanding gained through its use.
Curriculum thinking is about having clear purposes and
goals.
CURRICULUM ARTEFACTS
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23. CONTENT & CONTEXT
No more ‘CASE STUDIES’....
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25. Noel Jenkins
FANTASY KS3
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26. Teaching
& Learning
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27. Geographical ‘lens’
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28. “fieldplay”
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29. Geographical
enquiry
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30. Freedom/Risk
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31. Explore
Experiment
Experience
Expertise
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32. M:E CURRICULUM
Mission Based
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33. BADGES
Learning badges e.g. Mozilla...
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34. Place / Space / Scale / Environment /
Sustainability / Interdependence /
Consumption / Futures / Urbanisation /
Technology / Pedagogy / Mobile learning /
Resourcing / CPD / Collaboration / Networks
CURRICULUM
ESSENTIALS /
ARTEFACTS
Give me five....
I’ll be leaving at 1.30....
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35. THANKS
a.parkinson@gmail.com
@GeoBlogs
http://livinggeography.blogspot.com
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