Curriculum for Wales HUMANITIES NETWORK MEETING Icebreaker Overview

Curriculum for Wales HUMANITIES NETWORK MEETING

Icebreaker

Overview of Cf. W 22 • 1 curriculum: 6 Ao. LEs • Structured by So. WMs • Descriptions of Learning • Purpose led • Pedagogy driven

Curriculum Integration NOT an Integrated Curriculum! OECD report, “Achieving The New Curriculum”: “holistic learning and away from fragmentation” Schools must find “concrete mechanisms to weave knowledge, skills and values from different subjects to allow learners to develop deep understanding of the issues”

Where to Start? Pedagogy It’s the WHY behind our choices

Purpose Led Pedagogy y Williams: ‘The Journey to 2022’ focus here should be on exploring what the purposes mean for all learners. Curriculum aration and design should contribute to ners’ development towards the four purposes, er than trying to fit the headlines of the four oses into all learning. Purpose Led Pedagogy OECD report, “Achieving The New Curriculum” • Traditional curriculum: “focuses on the transmission of disciplinary knowledge as a goal in itself” • Cf. W 22: learning is designed to advance learners towards the Purposes i. e. ▫ content-driven: ‘learners should know about the Holocaust’ ▫ purpose led: Essence of Learning ‘learning about the Holocaust informs learners about racism and supports them to become ethical citizens’ ▫ Inquiring into the Holocaust helps to develop capable learners

Coherent and Robust schools should not: • move too quickly towards implementation • use superficial thematic approaches or try to evidence four purposes coverage • retrofit current content of their curriculum to meet the demands of Curriculum for Wales guidance

Beth sy'n newydd yn y Dyniaethau? What is new in Humanities?

Navigating the Ao. LE

Introduction – Purpose-led Humanities

An example “Informed, self-aware citizens engage with the challenges and opportunities that face humanity, and are able to take considered and ethical action. ” Ambitious, Capable learners Engage with the Ethical, Informed citizens Healthy, Confident individuals Enterprising, Creative contributors challenges and opportunities that face humanity

Datganiadau'r Hyn sy'n Bwysig Statements of What Matters

Egwyddorion cynnydd Principles of progression Ehangder a dyfnder Dyfnhau'r Ddealltwriaeth (disgyblaethau) Nodi Cysylltiadau (cyd-destunau newydd) Breadth and Depth Soffistigeiddrwydd (sgiliau) Cynyddu Effeithiolrwydd Deepening Understanding (disciplines) Making Connections (new contexts) Sophistication (skills) Increasing Effectiveness

Descriptions of Learning

• Cyfnod Ymgysylltu • Engagement phase

Vision for Humanities / Designing Curriculum Designing a Humanities Curriculum Same as any other Ao. LE • Value of content to learner • Rigour + Focus • Coherence • Progression • Welsh Dimension / International Perspective • So. WMs 5!!

Kirsty Williams: the journey to 2022 The focus here should be on exploring what the four purposes mean for all learners. Curriculum preparation and design should contribute to learners’ development towards the four purposes, rather than trying to fit the headlines of the four purposes into all learning. schools and practitioners should develop a vision for their curriculum. This process is critical to developing a genuinely transformational curriculum: schools should not use current content or provision as a starting point or seek to retrofit it to satisfy the new curriculum requirements. Co-construction requires people to work across traditional boundaries: between tiers of education as well as between disciplines, schools and phases, and with stakeholders beyond the education system. Co-construction should bring an equity between different voices in a team or in the system. Co-constructing solutions takes longer [and so] space and time to think and engage [are required].

Kirsty: the journey to 2022 schools should not: • move too quickly towards implementation • use superficial thematic approaches or try to evidence four purposes coverage • retrofit current content of their curriculum to meet the demands of Curriculum for Wales guidance • carry out an audit in an attempt to match up every description of learning and then plan content to fit perceived gaps • assess directly to descriptions of learning.

SHARED EXPECTATIONS • Put this in Welsh too? https: //gov. wales/written-statement-curriculum-wales-journey -2022

• Cyfnod Ymgysylltu Engagement phase • Eich gweledigaeth i’r MDPh: • Your vision for this Ao. LE: • EICH YSGOL • EICH LLEOLIADAU • EICH DYSGWYR • YOUR SCHOOL • YOUR SETTING • YOUR LEARNERS

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