CPD Key concepts in subjects - Curriculum development

As many schools move in the direction of a knowledge based curriculum there has become a need in developing a more challenging and complex curriculum that builds effectively to ensure students grasp the key concepts in a given subject.

This resource has been used in staff training and covers the following areas:

1. Determining what it means to study each subject and why it is an important subject to study
2. Ascertaining what is meant by a key concept
3. Exploration of why students should be given the most important knowledge
4. Determining the key concepts and sub concepts that make up a subject
5. Mapping key concepts across a LTP
6. Justifying and articulating how students encounter each concept/sub concept and how the complexity increases as they journey through the curriculum
7. Exploration of the curriculum as the progression model

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