The Secondary Curriculum Design Handbook, written by Brian Male and Mick Waters,\u00a0will be published in April.\u00a0\u00a0 You can order it\u00a0now on the usual sites.<\/p>\n
Schools around the world are struggling to balance the statutory requirements of a national curriculum and the need for students attain good grades in national examinations and qualifications\u00a0with their desire to provide the wide, engaging and exciting curriculum that they know students need, and which will prepare them for life and work in the 21st<\/sup> Century.\u00a0 Concerns about standards often lead to a narrowing of the curriculum and whilst many schools have found their own solutions to these dilemmas, many others lack the confidence and the approach to curriculum design that would enable them to resolve what seems like an impossible dilemma.<\/p>\n The book\u00a0is a practical guide to schools on how to resolve this dilemma and design a curriculum that will engage students\u2019 interest, excite their imaginations, and at the same time provide them with the knowledge, skills and understanding they need in order achieve high standards and live and work successfully in the 21st<\/sup> Century.<\/p>\n Can this really be done?\u00a0 Buy the book and find out!<\/p>\n Foreword by John Dunford<\/p>\n Introduction<\/p>\n Chapter 1: \u00a0Curriculum Design<\/p>\n Chapter 2:\u00a0 A twenty-first century curriculum?<\/p>\n Chapter 3: A framework for the curriculum<\/p>\n Chapter 4: The curriculum tree<\/p>\n Chapter 5: The deep roots of learning<\/p>\n Chapter 6: The canopy of leaves<\/p>\n Chapter 7: Building in the competencies<\/p>\n Chapter 8:\u00a0Making learning irresistible<\/p>\n Chapter 9: Local contexts<\/p>\n Chapter 10: The timetable<\/p>\n Chapter 11: Pathways and gateways<\/p>\n Chapter 12: Assessment and evaluation<\/p>\n Chapter 13: Managing institutional dimensions<\/p>\n Chapter 14: A variety of options<\/p>\n Chapter 15: Postscript \u2013 A world-class curriculum<\/p>\n Glossary<\/p>\n References<\/p>\n Index<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Secondary Curriculum Design Handbook, written by Brian Male and Mick Waters,\u00a0will be published in April.\u00a0\u00a0 You can order it\u00a0now on the usual sites. Schools around the world are struggling to balance the statutory requirements of a national curriculum and the need for students attain good grades in national examinations…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-83","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curriculumdesign.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curriculumdesign.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curriculumdesign.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curriculumdesign.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curriculumdesign.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.curriculumdesign.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/www.curriculumdesign.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions\/348"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curriculumdesign.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curriculumdesign.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Contents<\/h3>\n