Computer Curriculum in Elementary Schools  

With e-Learning and digital adaptive learning becoming buzzwords in the recent years, the age of integration of ICT in school education seems to have truly arrived. But the moment one looks beyond the urban centers, the rural areas throw up hundreds of thousands of schools just beginning to wake up to the idea. Read more

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Curriculum and teaching innovation  
This handbook is intended to provide guidance for educators interested in exploring the potential of personalisation to transform curriculum design and teaching practices. It is aimed primarily at educational leaders involved in curriculum and teaching innovation. The full version of this handbook is available to download in pdf format (PDF) Read more
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Cambridge Primary Review special report on the primary curriculum  
Towards a New Primary Curriculum is in two parts, published separately and downloadable below. Part 1 identifies the questions which need to be addressed, describes current arrangements for the primary curriculum and sets them in historical and international context. It then reveals what the Review’s evidence says about existing curriculum strengths and weaknesses, and about what needs to change. Part 2 summarises the main points from this evidence, highlights other matters in need of resolution, and sets out proposals for reform. Read more
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Tests blamed for blighting children's lives  
Children's lives are being impoverished by the government's insistence that schools focus on literacy and numeracy at the expense of creative teaching, the biggest review of the primary school curriculum in 40 years finds today. Read more
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Professional development materials  
The aim of these materials is to support a core group of practitioners (or an individual practitioner) to stimulate discussions with their colleagues around the issues involved in curriculum change. Read more
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For secondary school teachers only (sorry)  
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Teaching English as a compulsary subject at secondary school is very different to teaching English to business classes, at university or at primary school.

Who personalises learning? The learners of course  
Forums, quizzes and a wide range of online collaborative activities helped support children as self-directed learners. But the key lessons from Ranvilles transcend ICT and the infant age group too, and lie at the heart of learning - because Ranvilles’ quest had been to re-energise the curriculum, with the children at the centre... Read more >>
Naturally curious  
In a curriculum based on facts and box-ticking, creativity is often overlooked. "The government emphasis on data, evidence, results and league tables is not to do with the quality of learning," says Penny Hay, Director of Research at 5x5x5. "The performance-led agenda is closing down possibilities for children rather than opening them up."... Read more
Revolution, not Evolution  
A Curriculum for Excellence provides us with a singular opportunity to radically transform our secondary school curriculum. It seems to be taken as a fact in education that change should be something that evolves over time ... Read more
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