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Mastering curriculum leadership: a personalised course for secondary curriculum leaders

Audience

Curriculum leaders

Structure

One-day course with follow-up

Course overview

This course will develop attendees as leaders of curriculum. Based on educational research and curriculum theory, participants will explore effective and rigorous curriculum development, and consider how to strategically lead and develop colleagues.

Course aims

Course content

This course will:


Deliver personalised professional learning for subject leaders in your school. The course will be delivered with knowledge of your school and its priorities. It will support subject leaders to lead robust curriculum design and development and grow their capacity to work with departmental colleagues


Help to ensure effective and robust line management and professional development of teaching staff. Subject leaders will be encouraged to consider, and strategically plan for, the professional needs of colleagues.


Support your school in implementing workload reduction strategies. Subject leaders will consider the importance of strategic planning to inform staff and curriculum development.

Session 1: The curriculum

  • Principles of robust curriculum design

  • The importance of schema theory to subject leaders

  • Substantive and disciplinary knowledge

 

Session 2: Leadership of curriculum

  • Achieving consensus on your department’s curricular rationale

  • The curriculum as a progression model

  • Strategic approaches to assessment and feedback

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Session 3: Working with others to develop a curriculum

  • Building a strong team culture and ethos

  • Planning for the professional development of your team

  • Building an effective relationship with senior leaders

 

Session 4: Evaluating curriculum

  • Monitoring and evaluation

  • Quality assurance

  • Strategic planning

Your Instructor

Catherine Priggs

Catherine has extensive experience in supporting subject leaders. She has worked as a Specialist Leader of Education, supporting subject leaders beyond her setting, and has been commissioned to support subject leaders in a range of schools and across multi-academy trusts. She is one of a group of leaders who support subject leaders nationally and internationally for her subject association.

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