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Using threshold concepts to think about curriculum design

Nov 08, 2015 | Category: planning

Thank you so much to everyone who helped out, presented, turned up on a wet Saturday or just joined in from afar on our creaky Livestream (I'm particularly devastated that Professor Ray Land's keynote...

#Threshold concepts #researchED

Can we make learning permanent?

Aug 30, 2015 | Category: learning

How can we know whether a student has learned something? To answer that we need a working definition of what we mean by learning and the one I've come up with is tripartite; learning is composed of re...

#Threshold concepts #phenotypic plasticity #speeding

20 psychological principles for teachers #2 Prior knowledge

May 26, 2015 | Category: psychology

This is the second in a series of posts unpicking the Top 20 Principles From Psychology For Pre-k–12 Teaching And Learning. This time it's the turn of Principle 2 – What students already know affect...

#liminality #Threshold concepts #misconceptions #prior knowledge #Top 20 psychological principles

Using Threshold Concepts to design a KS4 English curriculum

Mar 24, 2015 | Category: English

The big change a-coming for curriculum design is that the final vestiges of modularity will soon have been licked clean from the assessment spoon; from September it will linearity all the way. Many En...

#gcse english #Threshold concepts #Poetry by Heart

Principled curriculum design: the English curriculum

Dec 16, 2013 | Category: English

The tragedy of life is that one can only understand life backwards, but one must live it forwards Søren Kierkegaard Back in March 2013, I wrote about the principles underlying my redesign of a Keys St...

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