Christine Counsell’s principles are worth absorbing too:
Curriculum needs to be sufficiently systematic (ideas need to encountered multiple times with increasing complexity) and sufficiently subject-sensitive (students benefit from playing ‘junior versions’ of how knowledge is acquired within domains)
Agree they may be similar - I'll look into this. Is spiralling an older term that has been replaced by 'vertically integrated' or 'vertical coherence'? Or is there something different enough meant by spiral curriculum? 🤔
Christine Counsell’s principles are worth absorbing too:
Curriculum needs to be sufficiently systematic (ideas need to encountered multiple times with increasing complexity) and sufficiently subject-sensitive (students benefit from playing ‘junior versions’ of how knowledge is acquired within domains)
Great call David. The more the merrier - all hugely useful for schools and teachers when having curriculum conversations.
And spiralling although this may be Wiliam's 'vertically integrated'.
Agree they may be similar - I'll look into this. Is spiralling an older term that has been replaced by 'vertically integrated' or 'vertical coherence'? Or is there something different enough meant by spiral curriculum? 🤔