There are many other resources available to help you, here are a few that you might find useful.
General advice
| Designing your curriculum from the QCDA |
This page covers the key elements of a curriculum - aims, personal development, skills, cross curriculum dimensions, subjects and assessment. |
| Buildign personal development into the curriculum | From here is guidance about embedding "Every Child Matters" into the curriculum. |
| Ofsted report "Curriculum Innovation in schools" | This report describes a small scale survey in 30 schools that were innovative, the areas fall broadly into the categories: organising the curriculum through themes or inter-disciplinary links rather than discrete subjects; using curriculum time flexibly; providing alternative curriculum pathways; and developing learning skills. It has recommendations and methods for measuring success, but although the schools are listed there are no distinct case studies. |
| Innovation Unit booklet describing innovative pedagogies | This page links to two documents, the first - called "Learning Futures: Next Practice in Learning and Teaching". This briefly sketches out how schools could inspire their students through changing teaching styles. The second document, the "Horizon Scanning Guide", gives examples of such pedagogies. Both were published prior to the Learners Future project which began in 2008, the findings from the first two day workshops can also be found on this page. |
| Innovation Unit | This page introduces the concept of 'all-age' or 'all-through' schooling and case studies of existing schools and guidance for their creation. |
Other case studies
| QCDA case studies | This page links to examples of innovative curriculums according to the QCDA. |
| QCDA secondary curriculum case studies | These are case studies focusing on innovation in the curriculum. |
| TDA Extended Schools videos | A selection of videos that offer further information about extended schools and demonstrate examples of good practice in providing extended services. The page also links to the TDA toolkit for parent support advisors. |
General tools
| Enquiring minds | Enquiring Minds is an approach to teaching and learning, developed by Futurelab, that takes students' ideas, interests and experiences as its starting point, and provides them with more responsibility for the direction and content of their learning. From this page you can access guidance with practical suggestions and resources. |
| Futurelab handbook "Promoting transformative innovation in schools" | "This handbook aims to offer evidence, insights, ideas and recommendations that can be built upon to support and nurture a culture of transformative innovation within education. The handbook contains a short list of techniques to encourage innovation and creativity.
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| Picture this! Planning for personalisation | A set of tools and practical exercises for individuals and groups to examine what personalisation means and how it can be successfully developed and implemented. |
| Innovation Unit toolkit for reflecting on challenges | Delta 6 can be used by groups to think about and prioritise the key global, national and local challenges faced and how your school can respond to them. It includes think pieces from leading figures as well as interactive activities and a facilitators guide. |
| Innovation Unit toolkits and resources for thinking | These are the tools created by the Innovation Unit. In particular Picture This is a set of tools and practical exercises for individuals and groups to examine what personalisation means and how it can be successfully developed and implemented. Delta 6 has four practical activities to encourage reflection on challenges that face school leaders in the 21st century. |
| NCSL FutureSight toolkit | The FutureSight toolkit is designed to support thinking how children of 2020 will want to learn, and how schools will need to change to meet those needs. It is based on the OECD scenarios of 2001. |
| The Children's Play Information Service | The Children's Play information Service (CPIS) is a specialist information resource providing information on many aspects of children's play, focusing on school-age children. |
