Author Archives: Daisy
Teaching and Learning at Berkhamsted – Grammar workshop
Regular readers of this blog will know that I am a big fan of grammar. A thorough understanding of English grammar transforms a pupil’s ability to use our language powerfully. My respect for the power of grammar came to me … Continue reading
Cambridge Assessment – 21st Century Skills
Two weeks ago I spoke at a Cambridge Assessment event on Teaching and Assessing 21st century Skills. Regular readers of this blog will know my thoughts on 21st century skills, and the speech I gave was rather similar to this … Continue reading
Specialist Schools and Academies Trust Seminar
Last Thursday The Curriculum Centre hosted a seminar about implementing a knowledge-based curriculum. It was hosted by Bill Watkin of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust. Caroline Nash, our chair, spoke about the challenges and opportunities we have faced in … Continue reading
Rigour makes creativity possible
I’m a big fan of Michael Morpurgo’s work. I have read Private Peaceful with several year 7 classes and always have difficulty not crying at the end of it. About 5 years or so ago I also took a group … Continue reading
Why history matters
There was an excellent article in yesterday’s Guardian about history teaching. In it, Martin Kettle argues that the English are bereft of history and that such a loss has huge and damaging social implications. Here at The Curriculum Centre we … Continue reading
Fun and engaging lessons
In a previous post I wrote about how I had revamped a unit on writing skills so that pupils spent more time thinking about the aims of the lesson. Is this new revamped unit as ‘fun’ as the old unit? I … Continue reading
Using curriculum freedoms to innovate – our two five-year history cycles
Pimlico Academy has a history specialism and as such we have put a great deal of thought into its history curriculum. We wanted the curriculum to be based on sound historical principles. We wanted it to be sequenced chronologically, to … Continue reading
Wellington College Free Thinking Conference
Tomorrow, Jo Saxton and I will be speaking at a conference at Wellington College. It’s called Free Thinking: Using Independence to Transform Schools and you can see the agenda here. Jo and I will be speaking on a panel with Dr … Continue reading
Rote learning vs learning facts meaningfully
In my last post, I wrote about lessons in which pupils are not thinking about the aims of the lesson. I gave an example of a unit of work I taught when I first began teaching. Obviously this example is anecdotal … Continue reading
‘Review each lesson plan in terms of what the student is likely to think about.’
Last week Dan T Willingham was mentioned in the UK media quite a few times. Willingham is a cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia whose research focuses on the ‘application of cognitive psychology to K-12 education’. Last week, Michael … Continue reading
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