Climate change and the new curriculum

Lots earlier in the week on the apparent place of Climate Change in the new curriculum which we are all waiting for with baited breath, assuming there are any schools that will still have to follow it by then...

This GUARDIAN piece was tweeted lots of times .. Comment in it by Tim Oates, who is senior figure in the 5-16 Curriculum review

"We have believed that we need to keep the national curriculum up to date with topical issues, but oxidation and gravity don't date. We are not taking it back 100 years; we are taking it back to the core stuff. The curriculum has become narrowly instrumentalist."

Climate change was apparently added to the curriculum in 1995 (I'm sure I taught about it before then ?)

If you disagree with the decision, you can go to PEOPLE AND PLANET where there is already a suggested e-mail to use. Or you can send your own thoughts separately, whatever you think of the decision.

I'm booked in for a Curriculum conference at Keele University on the 15th of July which includes Tim Oates as a speaker



Centre for Successful Schools

Annual Conference 2011

The Curriculum: Lessons to be Learned? 
Keele Hall, Keele University
Friday, 15th July 2011
This year’s day conference will be held on Friday 15th July in Keele Hall at Keele University.  This event will address issues relating to effective teaching and learning, with particular reference to the curriculum.  The speakers are:
Professor Michael Young, Emeritus Professor of Education at the Institute of Education - The Return to Subjects- reflections on the Coalitions Government’s approach to the curriculum
Tim Oates, Chair of the National Curriculum Review Expert Panel - National Curriculum and School Curriculum: difficulties, confusions and understanding demarcation between them
Dr Brian Male, Director, The Curriculum Foundation - What will the National Curriculum Review mean for teaching and learning?
Stephen Anwyll, Head of 3-14 Assessment, and Janet Holloway, Head of 14-19 Regulation, Ofqual Senior Management Team - Assessment, qualifications and curriculum - the regulator's view
Mervyn Wilson, Principal & Chief Executive, The Co-operative College - Co-operative Schools - the quiet revolution
Andrew Chubb, Principal of Archbishop Sentamu Academy, Hull - Building a better bac
This event will attract a wide range of delegates, including education organisers at national and regional level, academics in further and higher education, managers and advisors in local authorities, school leadership teams and classroom practitioners. 



The last time I was there was for a friend's wedding many years ago...

Final word to Homer Simpson as quoted on my GLOBAL WARMING page, and also coincidentally featuring in an episode that was shown last week on Channel 4

“I would like to live long enough to see the effects of global warming. I’ve got an inside tip that it’s all a load of crap!”
Homer Simpson

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