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Home > Reflective Teaching in Primary Schools >  3. Teaching for learning > 10. Planning > Reflective Activities > To examine the extent to which weekly plans are significant in developing curriculum


  1. 1. Becoming a reflective professional
       1. Identity
       2. Learning
  2.    3. Reflection
  3.    4. Principles
  4.    Observing [supplementary chapter]
  5.    Enquiry [supplementary chapter]
  6.    Mentoring [supplementary chapter]
  7.    Techniques of enquiry
       [supplementary chapter]

  8. 2. Creating conditions for learning
  9.    5. Contexts
  10.    6. Relationships
  11.    7. Engagement
  12.    8. Spaces

  13. 3. Teaching for learning
  14.    9. Curriculum
  15.    10. Planning
  16.    11. Pedagogy
  17.    12. Communication
  18.    13. Assessment

  19. 4. Reflecting on consequences
  20.    14. Outcomes
  21.    15. Social justice
  22.    Judgement
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  23. 5. Deepening understanding
  24.    16. Teacher expertise
  25.    17. Professional learning
  26.    18. Professionalism
  27.    Starting out [supplementary
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  28.    Improvement [supplementary
       chapter]

To examine the extent to which weekly plans are significant in developing curriculum

Aim

To examine the extent to which weekly plans are significant in developing and modifying the curriculum.

Evidence and reflection

Over the course of a term or half term, note the ways in which weekly plans are used as a ‘thinking tool’ by staff? You might:

Find out where weekly plans come from, for example, previous year's planning or from a commercial scheme.

Note the ways in which weekly plans are developed through staff team meetings.

Record changes to weekly plans that come about through staff discussion.

Note any involvement of the head teacher or a member of the senior management team in developing the content of weekly planning.

Extension

Make a record of changes to medium-term planning that are made at the end of a unit of work. Can these changes be traced back to discussions surrounding the weekly plans?


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