Build an outstanding curriculum workshop
Build an outstanding curriculum workshop
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Short Description
Is your curriculum preparing students to apply knowledge in GCSE exams? Do students forget most of what they learned earlier? 'Build an outstanding curriculum' will show you how to refocus your curriculum on the conceptual understanding and skills for AO2 and AO3 that a 5-year curriculum needs. The workshop uses our 5-year plan, Blueprint, and takes you through the design process we have used to turn the plan into a classroom-ready course. Plus you’ll get a free energy transfer topic from our Complete Mastery course, so you can see clearly how to put the changes into action.
What you will learn
✔ How to re-align all the elements of your curriculum
✔ How to use the Acquire, Apply, Analyse to better aim at AO1, AO2 and AO3
✔ How to use Engage, Explore, Explain for better conceptual understanding
✔ How to use pre- and diagnostic assessment to make teaching adaptive
£169 for one teacher or £229 for two teachers. The workshop builds on the successful 2018 Kickstart Workshops.
5-year plan
Kickstart will help you transition to a 5-year, big ideas approach. You will start the process of reshaping your curriculum into a progression of key concepts that leads students towards expert understanding. At the level of each unit, you will see how teaching towards clear objectives for applying and analysing can help weaker students improve by developing their cognitive abilities.
To make your job easier, we have created a 5-year big ideas curriculum framework. Blueprint is designed backwards from the new GCSE requirements and developed with an Awarding Body. Our analysis shows there is enough curriculum time to teach concepts and skills in depth and still get through the content. Blueprint does this by building a strong foundation to build on later. This reduces the need for re-teaching and makes it easier to learn the factual details.
If you book, you will get the Kickstart Online Course free (normally £79). Plus you'll get a free topic from our Complete Mastery Year 7 to put the principles into action.
Kickstart Workshops will be led by Tony Sherborne and the Mastery Science team, who designed the KS3 Science Syllabus and the 5-year plan with AQA.
Download the workshop overview and agenda
2 teachers? Raising a purchase order? Setting up a supplier? See below.
Payment
You can pay by credit card or by invoice.
Using a Purchase Order? Add a customer note during checkout. Your confirmation email will include the link to your invoice to pay.
Setting us up as a supplier? You can download the company details. This includes contact information and bank details. Contact us for further information.
Outcomes
Kickstart will give you practical ways to improve your current
curriculum, and implement the principles immediately to maximise your learning. Download the agenda.
- Transform your curriculum into a 5-year plan for becoming expert at GCSE
- Evaluate weaknesses in your curriculum objectives, teaching and assessment
- Use Kickstart Tools to adapt your year 7 units for September 2019
- Plan how to reshape Y7-11 units
- Try out our Complete Mastery materials
Discounts
Want to bring a colleague? We encourage two or more teachers from one school to attend and have substantially reduced the cost. Select the number of teachers, and use the discount code at the end of the checkout process.
| Number of teachers | Total price | Saving | Discount code |
| 2 | £229 | £109 | bring2 |
| 3 | £289 | £218 | bring3 |
| 4 | £349 | £327 | bring4 |
Please contact us if you want to book 5 or more teachers or you are from an academy chain booking teachers from different schools.
FAQ
Booking for someone else? Please add a note to your order. Enter the name of the teacher who is going to attend.
Want to bring a colleague? There is a substantial discount for 2 or more teachers. See discounts section.
Want to change the venue? Once paid, you can transfer your booking to a different venue at no cost, if there are places available. Please contact us.
Want to cancel? You can cancel a booking by email until 28 days before the event and receive a full refund. After this, there will be an administration charge of £50.
What happens if the event is cancelled? First, we will offer you an alternative venue/date. If this is not suitable for you, we will of course give you an immediate full refund.
Feedback
I attended your workshop and thought it was brilliant. Excellent resources to help ensure mastery of science. We have a lot of work to do!
An extremely thought provoking course, for rethinking priorities in teaching science and the possibility of creating more 'space' in the curriculum.
An inspiring day with so many ideas. I definitely plan to make a start and make changes.
I really enjoyed this philosophy on education; really made me think. I will be changing the way I do things.
Great concept ideas: I will be suggesting these to my HoD and using Big Ideas. Thanks for a very good learning experience.
A really helpful course and lots of great ideas to start implementing.
Very useful and relevant. Likely to make an immediate impact on planning for lessons.
Fabulous day – I’ve got a lot from it. Lots of good ideas and discussions.
Great to have topic/syllabus drawn up as I’ve been battling this in my own rewrite from scratch.
Q&A
For the Year 7 Mastery Practice book:
For the Y9/GCSE Mastery Practice Book:
It was written to help year 7 students learn to transfer the scientific knowledge to unfamiliar situation. It can also be used by students in other years to improve their understanding of the fundamental concepts. Learning to apply is what will give students access to the 60% of marks at GCSE that demand more than recalling content. The book uses a research-based approach to teach students how to solve different types of problems.
The Practice Book has a chapter on each unit in the year 7 curriculum, based on a 5-year curriculum and AQA's KS3 Science Syllabus. Download the sample material to see exactly what concepts and types of problems are included.
The first strategy studente need to learn is to evaluate the problem and what knowledge is needed to solve it. 'Detect' simulates how an expert looks at a question. They make sense of the situation, look beyond the superficial details to find the deep structure This allows them to recognise this as an example of a problem type they have seen before, and recall the organised information they need to solve - key concepts. It ensures that students avoid their inclination to just look at the keywords, and dive in risking misunderstanding the situation. Detect is broken down into smaller steps, usually: draw a diagram, show values, identify unknown, decide the concept
This encourages students to bring into their working memory all their existing knowledge, externalise it on paper (to reduce working memory demands), and then home in on what's relevant to solving the problem.
The third stage of the problem solving strategy is the actual solution process using the knowledge from Recall.The Solve starts by showing how to use the knowledge from Recall and models a step by step process of moving towards a solution for the problem.We teach students how to write answers scientifically, using a variety of structures like claim-evidence-reasoning, and problem-solution, and cause-effect.
We give a big discount if you want to buy 30+ books. Please contact us.