Sequencing The Primary Curriculum

This book is an introduction to the primary curriculum for all trainee and early career teachers. It shows how to sequence and plan your teaching in every curriculum subject to ensure you are offering balanced and cohesive learning opportunities that align with the National Curriculum in England. Build your subject knowledge in line with the National Curriculum Sequence your teaching so that key curriculum content is threaded through all your lesson plans Explore the basics of curriculum design to support your professional development and help children to learn and remember more over time This is essential reading for trainee teachers on primary initial teacher education courses including university-based (PGCE, BEd, BA with QTS); school-based (School Direct, SCITT, Teaching Apprenticeships) routes into teaching, and early career and experienced teachers wishing to enhance their practice.

This book is an introduction to the primary curriculum for all trainee and early career teachers. It shows how to sequence and plan your teaching in every curriculum subject to ensure you are offering balanced and cohesive learning opportunities that align with the National Curriculum in England. Build your subject knowledge in line with the National Curriculum Sequence your teaching so that key curriculum content is threaded through all your lesson plans Explore the basics of curriculum design to support your professional development and help children to learn and remember more over time This is essential reading for trainee teachers on primary initial teacher education courses including university-based (PGCE, BEd, BA with QTS)and school-based (School Direct, SCITT, Teaching Apprenticeships) routes into teaching, and early career and experienced teachers wishing to enhance their practice.

A practical CPD guide for senior staff in primary schools on designing and delivering a cohesive primary curriculum with high-quality outcomes for all.

Simplicitus Altius is the companion book to Simplicitus: The Interconnected Primary Curriculum and Effective Subject Leadership. Building on the initial ideas from Simplicitus, this book now explores further challenges in effective curriculum design within primary including reading and its place in curriculum design, child development and movement, how to get started with writing your curriculum, how to produce usable, useful and workable documentation, planning for mixed age classes, and a complete evaluation section to get to the heart of your curriculum offer. Rooted in decades of experience and research, and packed full of exemplar materials and workable proformas, Altius unpicks and presents efficient solutions to some of the perennial issues faced by primary when designing a curriculum. The approaches contained within Simplicitus and Altius have been used successfully by hundreds of schools and thousands of primary colleagues both nationally and internationally to help design and evaluate their curriculum offer. Primary curriculum design can be challenging but it need not be difficult. It can be Simplicitus.

Primary curriculum design has been in sharp focus in recent years. After leading on curriculum design and effective subject leadership for 24 years across multiple schools, Emma has written the handbook for both the complex thinking which underpins primary curriculum design and provided the practical models to make it work. There is much advice out there for primary schools but much is often dominated by voices not trained or experienced in primary practice. Emma outlines the unique considerations needed for designing and implementing a rich, high-quality curriculum which serves our youngest learners – a blend of academic thinking, educational research, the wisdom of decades of primary experience and a true love of the unique nature of primary. Primary curriculum design is a unique knowledge domain of its own and Emma explains and explores how this knowledge and the thinking around it needs to be championed and implemented through both academic and child development lenses. Rooted in experience, underpinned by successful approaches implemented in hundreds of schools – curriculum design in primary is complex and nuanced but it can also be 'Simplicitus'.

Has our system of accountability and quick fixes meant we've lost perspective of what can really improve the quality of education? With a multitude of issues at the heart of some of our more toxic schools, including micro-management, over-complicated policy and the intricate measurement of the wrong foci, it appears that teachers are experiencing a disconnect from the very reason they joined teaching in the first place. With little autonomy over what's important, fewer teachers enter the profession than the monumental amount of teachers that are leaving, and those that do, do so with reluctance and regret. With an astute examination of practice in schools, Claire Hill and Kat Howard take a thoughtful and strategic view of how to ensure a sense of connection and cohesion within schools, to ensure that all feel part of the collective curricular journey towards a gold standard. With a consideration of research-informed practice, this book will provide a series of strategies for curriculum designers at every level, keeping the high quality teachers that we very much need in schools, and providing a better palette to students in the process. At a time where teaching is somewhat politicised, monetised and overcomplicated, Symbiosis: Curriculum and the Classroom sets about the task of refining the way in which we run our schools to improve the quality of our everyday lives in schools.

As modern technologies continue to develop and evolve, the ability of users to interface with new systems becomes a paramount concern. Research into new ways for humans to make use of advanced computers and other such technologies is necessary to fully realize the potential of 21st century tools. Human-Computer Interaction: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications gathers research on user interfaces for advanced technologies and how these interfaces can facilitate new developments in the fields of robotics, assistive technologies, and computational intelligence. This four-volume reference contains cutting-edge research for computer scientists; faculty and students of robotics, digital science, and networked communications; and clinicians invested in assistive technologies. This seminal reference work includes chapters on topics pertaining to system usability, interactive design, mobile interfaces, virtual worlds, and more.