OfSTED’s Education Inspection Framework requires that education and training providers sequence their curriculums. Sequencing refers to the way you organise your curriculum activities. The sequence is how the skills and knowledge are presented throughout the programme. OfSTED stresses the importance of sequencing to help learners demonstrate their ability to know and apply their learned skills. …
OfSTED has released a series of curriculum research reviews on a range of subjects. The aim of these is to support and inform those leading the thinking on subject education in schools. Each of the reviews tackles the use of assessment in curriculum plans and suggest that using a range of assessment approaches will most …
One of the most important aspects of any learning programme is evaluating its performance to determine how well it is working. There are a number of factors that contribute to the need for organisations to evaluate their programmes. Here are 5 benefits of programme evaluation. Evaluations provide data on what part of the programme has …
You’ll be familiar with the fact that e-learning requires you to be able to add narration to your presentations and videos. This has traditionally required the creator of the content to either record their voice or hire a professional voiceover artist. Many people dislike the sound of their voice, so it can be prohibitively costly …
Apprenticeship assessment focuses on what and how an apprenticeship programme is contributing to the development of knowledge, skills and behaviours of learners. The purpose of an apprenticeship programme assessment plan is to facilitate continuous programme level improvement. Programme assessment plans provide organisations with a clear understanding of how the apprenticeship programme is assessed. This means …
Curriculum intent is a framework for setting out the aims of a programme of education, including the knowledge and understanding gained at each stage. While curriculum design is a dynamic process, decisions about the aims of the curriculum must be made at an early stage. This allows planning to take place and helps teachers and …
Curriculum Mapping – How important is it? Since the introduction of OfSTED’s Education Inspection Framework, the subject of curriculum planning has obviously been a hot topic. However, as part of this, there has also been deeper debate about curriculum mapping. A recently published article “Are curriculum maps a waste of valuable time” prompted some interesting …
We have been working on an update to the organisational curriculum view so that all subjects or apprenticeship programmes can be seen in a single report. Users are now able to filter the view by year or level and then see the curriculum activities based on the length of the programme. Organisation Curriculum View In …
OfSTED Inspection Return OfSTED announced this week that full inspections will not return until next summer but there will be a gradual resumption of monitoring visits. This means that due to Covid, full OfSTED inspections will not have been conducted for almost 15 months. Essentially, there has been either no or just light touch monitoring …
We were asked to do an online demo with a school last week as they were interested in developing their curriculum using Stedfast and we realised that we hadn’t really blogged much about developing a curriculum plan for GCSE subjects. What better time to do this as Storm Francis brings heavy rains, wind and is …
