Curriculum is a hot topic in education at the moment, not least due to the Education Inspection Framework (Ofsted, 2019).
So it was a pleasure that more than 15 NPQ history teachers signed up for one-on-one academic tutoring with me (a former head of history) as part of Ambition Institute’s Expert Middle Leaders programme.
In academic tutoring conversations, we have developed teachers’ ideas about curriculum intent through the process of long-term planning, informed by Education Endowment Foundation research on effective implementation (EEF, 2019). This article shares some reflections on these conversations, and wider learnings about history curriculum developments.
So, what have I learnt from tutoring secondary history teachers across England, as they embark on a two-year curriculum development programme?
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