Innovative Curriculum Design: A renewed focus for secondary schools

Many schools are now having to adjust their teaching practice and assessment methods to reflect the pandemic’s impact on our young people. This is requiring us to re-evaluate our curriculum to ensure it is broad, balanced, inclusive, and supported by evidence-based research and good pedagogy. These are all things inspectors are now looking for under the new Inspection Frameworks. This course offers a detailed exploration of how to do this and provides best practice examples from international schools that we already work with.

Learning Outcomes:

• Design a vision statement for your curriculum that incorporates the unique qualities of your school and its staff.
• Ensure your curriculum is evidence-based and underpinned by quality research.
• Create a pupil skills progression matrix and knowledge progression map.
• Establish the resources needed to support your subject leaders as they adjust their action plans and look to create clear links between subjects in their efforts to deliver a new curriculum’s vision.
• Showcase evidence of your successes to inspectors and external stakeholders in the best possible way.

Optional 3-hours follow-up support available with this training course

This interactive online course is delivered by Veema and will only be confirmed when minimum numbers have been met. Participant numbers are limited and early booking is recommended.

This course will run over two sessions:

Session 1: 21 February 2023; 08.30-10.30 GMT (UTC)
Session 2: 28 February 2023; 08.30-10.30 GMT (UTC)
Session 3: 7 March 2023; 08.30-10.30 GMT (UTC)

Recordings will be made available to registered delegates for 14 days following the course, and will only be shared once payment has been received. Certificates will be issued to attendees.

Delegate fees:

£175 per COBIS Member delegate
£185 per Non-Member delegate

Please complete an online booking form by clicking 'register' at the top of this page.

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Lisa Jane Ashes Teaching and Learning Consultant, Author of Manglish (creating bespoke curriculums) and Teacher in the Cupboard (problem solving in education)

Lisa believes that education is about developing minds for the future. She also believes that many schools fall short of producing ‘a fully rounded end product’ because they fail to co-ordinate learning across all of their departments. She has therefore made it her mission to transform how teachers think about the curriculum so that they can begin to deliver a whole school approach to education. To achieve this she helps teachers develop both personally and professionally by empowering them to collaborate with others within and outside of their particular department.

In Lisa’s most recent book, ‘Teacher in the Cupboard,’ she helps teachers examine their own approaches to the many problems educators face. Tried and tested solutions to a myriad of issues are examined from all perspectives. This book provides a mindset to facing problems and is a very human approach that can be adopted to solve them. Lisa’s first book ‘Manglish’, considers how English and Maths can be creatively brought together to improve both literacy and numeracy throughout the whole school, and provides practical ideas and strategies for doing this.

Lisa has a passion for writing and appears in many teaching and learning publications such as: ‘There is another way’ and ‘Don’t change the light bulbs — A compendium of expertise from the UK’s most switched-on educators’. She has also written many articles to help reflect on her work in education and share her evolving ideas as she goes.

Lisa takes her message of curriculum collaboration around the world. Through her work with the charity ‘Reach Out to Schools’ Lisa has developed teams in Ghana and Nepal where she uses her strategies to help create a culture of continual self-improvement among the country’s teachers.

Senior Leaders, Curriculum and Teaching and Learning Leads