Curriculum
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Moving in One Direction: Finding Ourselves with an ATLAS Curriculum Map.
This week Tony (@bellew, Curriculum, IBDP & PD Coordinator) and I gave a presentation to MS-HS faculty during our Wednesday PD time on “Why we map with ATLAS Rubicon.” Here it is. ……….o0O0o……… I’m willing to bet that if you’re… Continue reading
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“Curriculum Development IS Professional Development”
As the year winds down, it is time to reflect and plan for next year. The summer will bring family time, trips and MA study before we get back into it all in August. I had a good ‘coaching’ session… Continue reading
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As long as there are children there will be schools
I’m just in from the final Headmaster’s Symposium of the academic year. These have been a series of panel discussions with the community, and the focus of this month’s was “The Future of CA.” DJ, the Headmaster, invited me to… Continue reading
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MYP Mind the Gap: Tensions in Transition from MYP to DP
A summary of my first conference presentation, which I really enjoyed. Continue reading
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Curriculum Studies Assignment: Physics & the MYP
With permission from my tutor, here is my Curriculum Studies assignment: “A critical review of a Grade 10 Introductory Physics course as part of the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme, examining selected aims and purposes and analyzing the extent to… Continue reading
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We are the Agents of Change
Finishing up an assignment, I went back through some of the recommended texts for the Curriculum Studies unit, and got fixated on the role of the teacher and coordinator in the curriculum. As it says in Kelly (2004) we are… Continue reading
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Teaching in the Third Dimension: Moving into Concept-based Curriculum
This post is a quick organisation of thoughts based on the new position paper by the IB. There is more in the paper than is discussed here, so please head over to the IB’s Position Papers site to read it.… Continue reading
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Educational Hip-Hop: Creativity and the Curriculum
Yesterday I had the pleasure of spending the afternoon with the Rhymebosome, Tom McFadden (@Tomcfad), famous for his Tomcfad YouTube channel of academic hip-hop, as he ran a workshop for students at Kyoto University. After he gave a performance at… Continue reading
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The MYP: Becoming its own ‘Baccalaureate’?
This is just a thought at the end of a couple of weeks of readings and responses to Bath MA International Education Curriculum Studies tasks. The term baccalaureate has diverse meanings, with examples such as in context of the IB… Continue reading
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A pedagogy of personalised learning
While reading about “Current issues in curriculum” today, I was pointed to this document from the UK government: Personalised Learning: A practical guide (pdf). I thought it might be worth sharing and of use to others. It’s long, but outlines… Continue reading
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“Not everything that counts can be counted.” Edvaluating the Curriculum
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” Albert Einstein Spiraling into control? The process of curriculum design, like any product, should be cyclical. Some even describe it as a spiral staircase –… Continue reading
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All Change: Teachers, Developers, Curriculum
#GOveLevels Big edunews last week (at least in the UK), was the leak of some details of a large-scale overhaul of secondary education. @TeachingOfSci has a bettter write-up of it on his blog (Edit: and some more here: Gove’s Resit), but… Continue reading
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Philosophy First: Contrasting approaches to the Curriculum
I’m a pragmatic idealist. As an idealist I chose the international pathway and a career in IB schools because I believe in education, global-mindedness and the philosophy of the IB. I want my kids to grow up this way, I want… Continue reading
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IB Education: Internationalism or Globalism?
I found this presentation really interesting in my reading for the “Culture and Curriculum” section of the Curriculum Studies unit. Dr. James Cambridge discusses how internationalism and globalism serve as contexts for international education. Click to view (SlideServe doesn’t embed… Continue reading
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Whose Culture? Whose Curriculum?
Culture before curriculum Denis Lawton, in Class, Culture and the Curriculum (1975), defines culture as everything that has been created by humans in society, including tools, technology, language, literature, attitudes and values: the whole way of life. He suggests that school… Continue reading
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