Take a look at the questions beneath. What number of of those expertise are lined by the Key Stage 2 curriculum?
I am going to offer you a clue: three of them are lined at main faculty, the remainder aren’t. Have you learnt which of them?
For an upcoming discuss I am planning, I have been busy researching the suggestions that maths departments have obtained from Ofsted (and ‘mocksted’) deep dives. One factor that I’ve seen come up a number of instances is:
“Lecturers of arithmetic have no idea sufficient about what college students have realized prior to now”
Secondary lecturers ought to positively know what’s on the first curriculum. And it isn’t ok to have a ‘tough thought’. Figuring out the first curriculum nicely helps us construct a robust Key Stage 3 curriculum, and improves the effectiveness of our educating, notably in Yr 7.Â
That is simple to repair. The primary downside is time. I believe most secondary lecturers agree that it will be good to know what’s on the first maths curriculum. However we wrestle to seek out the time to seek out out.Â
So I’ve tried to be useful! I researched the first curriculum from a secondary trainer’s perspective (I had a fairly good information of the first curriculum already, however there have been a number of issues I did not know, so it was a really worthwhile exercise for me). I then made a presentation summarising the important thing factors. After which I recorded it and put it on YouTube:
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Nearly all of the presentation is me describing the important thing options of the first curriculum. Within the final ten minutes I supply some recommendation for Key Stage 3 educating.
The slides are right here.
I hope that is useful! Mainly from studying Ofsted reviews I recognized a spot in maths trainer information and determined to try to repair it.
This took fairly a piece of day out of my Christmas holidays, so if you happen to discover it useful and wish to say thanks, you should buy me a drink right here. Cheers!
