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Sam Strickland Absolutely. There simply has to be a bottom line. Consequences don't come out of nowhere. In Scotland the majority of kids lose out because lessons are routinely disrupted by a minority.

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If we are truly honest as a sector there’s too much pandering to the needs / wants of those who don’t want to learn to the detriment of those who do. Not all will agree.

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Surely the most pressing issue for students is to ensure that their GCSE, AS and A level grades are reliable and trustworthy. The current 1-grade-in-4-is-wrong unreliability, with no right of appeal, does great damage. And this can very easily be fixed.
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Sam Strickland We are constantly developing and tweaking our curriculum as I know most departments are, it’s never finished. We need time for curriculum development not an overhaul. After 28 years in another overhaul would be the end for me.

Sam Strickland Yeah, my school have spent years working on curriculum. 3-4 inset days for the last 3yrs at least. Finally got it to a place where it works. I cannot face starting all that again.

Remove a bit of unnecessary content perhaps but absolutely not a complete rebuild.

Crucial point: governments like curriculum reform as it seems cheap. Actually, if you tot up all the teacher time it takes to deliver it, it’s incredibly expensive.

If there’s a major curriculum overhaul what do people think will happen to teacher workload….. & therefore R and R…..

Be careful what you wish for, especially if the sector isn’t properly consulted about what curriculum should look like

Tom is spot on.

The notion that teachers should identify trauma without medical training is dangerous. But teachers aren’t clinical specialists. That’s not their job. Some of the thinking around trauma & schools risks trivialising trauma. Worrying.

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The push for reforming the curriculum’s a lovely ideal. All that truly takes is working with the profession & actually listening to experts. What’s more difficult is recruiting & retaining teachers & funding education properly.

No teachers = no one to deliver the curriculum

Surely:

1: Recruitment & retention, including workload

2: Funding

3: Ensuring sufficient external services are in place to support schools & children

4: Behaviour

Are higher up the pecking order than curriculum as major edu priorities

There’s no point in having a beautifully crafted menu (whatever your taste & your associated choices about what you put on it) if there’s no one to cook it or serve it. Curriculum (regardless of what you want to put in it) is merely a document if there are no teachers to teach it

Curriculum is important & does need reviewing but by the profession. It isn’t, however, the most pressing educational issue & reforming it won’t result in an influx of trainee teachers….

People are starting to spout good curriculum = good behaviour. It’s not that simplistic.

Surely:

1: Recruitment & retention, including workload

2: Funding

3: Ensuring sufficient external services are in place to support schools & children

4: Behaviour

Are higher up the pecking order than curriculum as major edu priorities

It takes a few pupils to ruin the lesson for the other 27 that want to learn. I find it so annoying that there is such a focus on the minority that lack the discipline, empathy & self-control. Every child matters. What about the 95-98%, do they not matter? Moaners- try teaching.

The push for reforming the curriculum’s a lovely ideal. All that truly takes is working with the profession & actually listening to experts. What’s more difficult is recruiting & retaining teachers & funding education properly.

No teachers = no one to deliver the curriculum