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  • Support for early career teachers
  • Teach First
  • Year 1: Second half-term: how to design a coherent curriculum

    • Related Early Career Framework strands

    Subject and curriculum

    3.7 In all subject areas, pupils learn new ideas by linking those ideas to existing knowledge, organising this knowledge into increasingly complex mental models (or “schemata”); carefully sequencing teaching to facilitate this process is important.

    3b. Ensuring pupils’ thinking is focused on key ideas within the subject.

    3g. Revisiting the big ideas of the subject over time and teaching key concepts through a range of examples.

    3h. Drawing explicit links between new content and the core concepts and principles in the subject.

    Assessment

    6.1 Effective assessment is critical to teaching because it provides teachers with information about pupils’ understanding and needs.

    6.3 Before using any assessment, teachers should be clear about the decision it will be used to support and be able to justify its use.