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  • Support for early career teachers
  • Education Development Trust
  • Year 2: Second half-term: revisiting the importance of subject and curriculum knowledge

    • Instructions

    • Read the information and look at the examples provided.
    • As you do this, make notes in response to the key questions below.
    • You will need to take the notes with you to your mentor session for discussion with your mentor.

    In your notepad

    Key questions:

    • why is it important to discuss curriculum design with colleagues and what are some of the ways in which teachers can support each other with curriculum design?
    • why is it important for teachers to balance exposition, repetition and practice of critical skills and knowledge?
    • why should the big ideas of a subject be revisited over time?
    • what are some of the different ways in which teachers can make explicit links between new content and the core concepts and principles in a subject?