The focus of our November INSET day was around ensuring our curriculum allows children opportunities to work at a greater depth across our curriculum. We took ourselves back to school for part of the day for a reminder about some fundamentals of teaching and learning. Bloom's and 'Solo' taxonomies are an excellent rationale for the way we need to ensure children are given opportunities to think and apply their learning.
One key question was around the definition and concept of 'cleverness'?
- Is it being able to generate revolutionary new thinking?
- Is it seeing links and connections between different concepts and ideas?
- Or is it the quality and quantity of what you know?
Our curriculum therefore needs to allow children to learn skills, apply them in interesting contexts and use them to make links which extend their thinking.
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