"Over the next five years implementing the curriculum, assessment and qualification reforms will present significant challenges to teaching and learning. Schools will need to:
- develop teacher capability to deliver reformed GCSEs and A levels, including a focus on preparing pupils
- for the new style of examinations
- develop teachers’ ability to undertake assessment that evidences pupil progress in learning
- build capacity in middle and senior leadership related to curriculum design and development"
So says the Guidance Paper recently published by the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) - with CUREE and TDT – setting out why its members should be as aspirational about the development of their professional colleagues as they already are for their students
The Paper draws heavily on the review of the evidence undertaken by CUREE with Durham University and UCL Institute of Education and commissioned by the Teacher Development Trust published earlier this year and launched this summer in the House of Commons. Called Developing Great Teaching, that review and various user-friendly summaries of it can be downloaded from our website here
The ASCL Guidance Note outlines the findings of the research, explains clearly and compellingly why school leaders should take note of it and sets out in straightforward ways the four step process in developing a CPDL curriculumSo says the recently published
