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  • Year 1: Second half-term: how to design a coherent curriculum
    • Summer week 1

    Mentor materials

    Discussion - deciding topic for scheme of work and where to go for expert guidance

    Practice focus

    Interaction:

    Discussion

    Outcomes:

    • To have made a final decision on a topic for the scheme of work your teacher will design throughout this module.
    • To have offered guidance on where and who your teacher can go to for high-quality resources.

    Your teacher will bring to this session ideas about what topic they’d like to design a scheme of work on. Ideally this will be a scheme of work they will teach to pupils. Given we’re already in the summer term, it might make sense for them to design a scheme of work they will teach next academic year.

    Key questions and talking points

    1. Recap the outcome of this module: to design a scheme of work.
    2. Which schemes of work that you have taught have you found most helpful/supportive? Why?
    3. What previous experience do you have of designing a scheme of work?
    4. What topic are you thinking of choosing for your unit of work? Why?
    5. Discuss which colleagues are best placed to share their expertise and experience of teaching the chosen topic.
    6. Share your top recommendations for high-quality teaching and learning resources.