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World class…
 worldly-wise…real world learning
The elements of a world class curriculum  world beating
 world wide…universal learning
The Whole Education Annual Conference  world changing…making a world of difference
 out of this world… the child’s world…a world of opportunity
The world’s their oyster
Mick Waters 21 November 2012
World class… Raising aspiration
 more than higher grades
 worldly-wise…real world learning
 not just more levels and qualifications
 more than career outlook and optimism
 aspiration for worth
 aspiring to contribute
 aspiration of spirit
…needs for the 21st century
rules of the life game
the etiquette
and tactics a guarantee of
for success experiences
Who we
What we do,
think we
where we go
are
assessment
Who we
to build self What we know and
image know meet
learn to use
contacts
qualifications
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CBI 2012 Conference…John Cridland National curriculum paradox…
 Employers seek school-leavers who do not just possess a clutch of
exam passes but are "rounded and grounded.”  encourage schools to step away from maintained status
 Emphasis on exams and league tables "has produced a conveyor  offer autonomy and freedoms
belt, rather than what I would want education to be, an escalator."
 including deregulation of learning
 "If we're all committed to raising the education leaving age to 18 over
the next few years, then the tests at 16 are hugely important but  at the same time set a national curriculum
they're not the end point. They're a staging post. Sometimes the entire
debate seems to be about our exams at 16."
 which is highly specific
 “The best teachers we've talked to are rebels against the system.
They have had to break out of the straitjacket of the curriculum which National curriculum as an entitlement,
has stopped them delivering the sort of education our young people a requirement,
need.” a benchmark,
or a talking point?
World class…
cultural
moral
 worldly-wise…real world learning
 world beating
academic social
sporting
vocational
health
The professional / political tension
Real drivers in the system…
Politicians enact change
Schools feel pressured
 data …often suspect  cusp chasing
 league table position  simplistic syllabus Compromise belief
and practice We want good education
 EBacc  extended courses They measure improvement
 inspection…often suspect  spoon fed learning
 market driven awarding bodies  pupils as currency
They push on the tolerances
 ministerial favour  Ofsted tweeting while constrained by
accountability The electorate is reassured
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Let’s understand ‘Game Theory.’ A question of progress…
 What does the class have to ‘get on with?’
Our integrity is challenged when we end up chasing
 The experiment, painting, story, novel, model…in process
perverse, often arbitrary performance indicators.
 How much equipment is being used at any one point in the school day?
Somehow we have ended up with a mathematically modelled
 Where is the evidence of extended and incremental practice?
society controlled by readily amassed data such as quotas and
performance targets  Tick a chart every time you hear singing.
 What is the on/off ratio for computers?
 Is the whiteboard interactive?
 Where are your interactive learning platforms?
World class…
So instead let’s pursue new ways of bringing to life  worldly-wise…real world learning
values that motivate us
 world beating
In other words innovating with integrity….  world wide…universal learning
To empower and inspire; creating the conditions in
which children can flourish
World wide learning…universal content World class…
geometry, trigonometry, algebra, musical scales,
physical geography, the spectrum, colour mixing,  worldly-wise…real world learning
algorithms, the periodic table, swimming, density,
latent heat, forces, climatology, war, map referencing,  world beating
botany, drawing, gymnastics, time, geology,
magnetism, musical notation, perspective, erosion,  world wide…universal learning
focal length, astronomy, anatomy, pressure, time,
volume, co-ordinates, seismology, radiography,  world changing…making a world of difference
articulation, pivots, levers, peace, profit and loss,
capacity, cantilevers, growth, buoyancy, athletics…
Global giant, internet based, self managed learning..?
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World class… A futures learning outlook for schools?
big questions
 worldly-wise…real world learning
 world beating one offs, special events embedded, real learning
 world wide…universal learning compliance philosophy
 world changing…making a world of difference
exercising trudge quiet life
 out of this world… the child’s world…a world of opportunity
small matters
A futures learning outlook for schools? Performance and effectiveness…
big questions Tent pitched, xylophone played, model tested, song
sung, play acted, fabric sewn, local community
enhanced, fire lit, flowers and vegetables grown,
one offs, special events embodied, authentic learning foreign language spoken, poem appreciated, web site
constructed, meal cooked, weather recording taken,
armistice remembered, body exercised, bearing set,
compliance philosophy artefact explored, film viewed, photograph snapped,
map interpreted, old people valued, dance composed,
exercising trudge quiet life money accumulated, long shore drift measured, pot
thrown, bouquet arranged, tickets ordered, bird
spotted, constellation observed, wall built, spirit lifted,
small matters
book read, story written, LESSONS LEARNT
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What’s the curriculum promise? World class…
 a professional response
 worldly-wise…real world learning
 a purveyor of rations or a crafter of abundance
 world beating
 a guide on a learning adventure or a route marcher  world wide…universal learning
 the next…inspection, examinations, election, generation  world changing…making a world of difference
 out of this world… the child’s world…a world of opportunity
 remember your interview
 and keep your sunny side up
The world’s their oyster
The elements of a world class curriculum
The Whole Education Annual Conference
Mick Waters 21 November 2012
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