A Broad and Balanced Curriculum in Primary Schools

How do we ensure that the curriculum truly is Broad and Balanced? This book provides both discussion of the current challenges and practical guidance and support on how to tackle them. ****

Primary schools and teachers in England are tasked with providing a Broad and Balanced *curriculum. As pressures of standardised testing and the focus on English and maths impact on teaching time, how can teachers ensure that they remain focused on this as an objective?
How do we ensure that the curriculum truly is Broad and Balanced*? How do ensure that we are educating the whole child?

This book provides both discussion of the current challenges and practical guidance and support on how to tackle them. **It informs and inspires new teachers to teach across the curriculum, and to empower the next generation of children to explore what is possible for them within their own future lives.

This second edition includes new chapters on curriculum design; alternative environments and learning spaces.

Autorentext
Susan Ogier is Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-Ordinator of Art and Design Education at University of Roehampton, UK.

Klappentext

How do we ensure that the curriculum truly is Broad and Balanced? This book provides both discussion of the current challenges and practical guidance and support on how to tackle them.

Inhalt

Part 1 Understanding the Context of Children's Lives: Supporting Holistic Education

1. Resourcing the spirit of the child: Creativity in the contemporary classroom - Kate Thorpe
2. Creating Space to Explore Self-identity - Rachel Mason
3. Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development - Tony Eaude
4. Child Mental Health and the Role of the Arts - Susan Ogier
5. Philosophy and Learning to Think - Aimee Quickfall
6. Relationship and Sex Education: Valuing and respecting difference - Bonnie Kerr
7. Curriculum design: Shaping purposeful learning - Karin Doull
8. Developing a supportive ethos for all learners - Carrie Winstanley
   Part 2 Making Learning Meaningful: Teaching and Assessing a Broad and Balanced Curriculum
9. Learning to Enquire: The role of the humanities - Tony Eaude
10. Stranger things in the classroom: Drawing inspiration from children's visual culture - Robert Watts
11. Writing as an art form: an author's perspective - Michael Rosen
12. Learning to thrive with nature - Tessa Willy, Richard Dunne and Emilie Martin
13. Balancing the equation - Pinky Jain
14. Connecting STEM with the Arts: Because It Makes Sense - Susan Ogier and Nick Corston
15. Alternative Environments: Physical and virtual spaces - Lynda Chinaka and Anthony Barlow
16. Assessing the whole child - Maria Vinney
    Part 3 The Reflective Teacher: Developing as a Professional in the Primary Classroom
17. Transforming learning spaces for a twenty-first century curriculum - Murray Hudson and Terry White
18. The personal in the professional - Teresa Cremin
19. Differing views of Professionalism: Implications for primary teachers - Tony Eaude
20. The creative teacher: Agency and empowerment - Kate Thorpe
21. Myth busting in the contemporary primary classroom - Robert Morgan