Here are the Physics books I've done so far, they're not quite perfected yet but I'll update this page with newer versions when I get a chance. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1EnIwSSbgTgbDQ1ZXRoT1U5ZXc Please do let me know if you spot any typos or whatever, they've already benefited loads from people doing this. There are some mistakes in the answers... Continue Reading →
This post has been agreed by several teachers and is shared across several blog sites. In the last couple of years, we have openly expressed concern at the approaches taken by Tes Education Resources to plagiarism and copyright violation, theft of resources, and the selling of resources that violate copyright. This is not a blogpost intended to... Continue Reading →
Do you dream about curriculum? I do. I dream and I can see the web of knowledge, and it's the most beautiful thing. I can see how we touch the universe through our subjects, and my heart soars. Wherever I look, I see core, hinterland, narrative, organisation, memory, and sequences. If you're going for a... Continue Reading →
I want to talk about curriculum and knowledge - - this is something I think about a lot! If we're going to give our students the very best education, we can't begin with pedagogy, or assessment, or exercise books- we have to begin with our subjects. All subjects have their own knowledge structures, they are... Continue Reading →
Since we are moving into a new era of curriculum focus in education, and rightly so, there are a growing number of brilliant blogs, books and articles that anyone seeking to take an informed approach to curriculum should read.A number of people have expressed an interest in a centralised directory of these so this is... Continue Reading →
A while ago I said that science has a unique claim to truth. I was wrong. After reading Christine Counsell's article "Taking Curriculum Seriously" I have come to realise that all human endeavour, and therefore the subjects we teach in our schools, are a search for truth, and that the reason we have so many... Continue Reading →
The second subject character matrix (SCM) in the series is concerned with the structure of the knowledge of a subject. There are two axes: vertical or clustered organisation; and extended or localised links. These axes draw on Bernstein's horizontal and vertical structures and Maton's semantic density respectively. In a knowledge-centred approach (the best way overall),... Continue Reading →
This post is part of the "Curriculum in Science" symposium curated by Adam Boxer (@adamboxer1). Read Adam's introduction here. Curriculum is a hard thing to talk about. It’s interesting to think about why this is. I think that the best way to understand what we mean by “curriculum” is to begin at the end. What... Continue Reading →
Attempts at thinking about curriculum across a school have often meant a push from leadership for generic models, consistency, and conformity. All lessons must contain x. All books must show evidence of y. All departments to submit z for quality assurance. Our subjects are forced into uniform shapes convenient for leadership, but they are damaged, and their... Continue Reading →
The universe is unimaginably vast, yet life is only present on one planet that we know of. Evolution has brought about the human brain; human culture has emerged from brains in plural and their interactions in, and over, time. Human culture: our stories, music, art, our glimpses at the logic of the universe through maths... Continue Reading →
