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Long-term planning

Excellent overviews of curriculum planning issues, including the significance of breadth and balance, are provided in (Reading 9.1):

  • Male, B. and Waters, M. (2012) The Secondary Curriculum Design Handbook, London: Continuum. 

The importance of subject domains is addressed in Chapter 9, section 4, and in Young (2008, Reading 9.3).  For a selection of subject guidance, which makes the point, see:

  • Coles, A. T. (2013) Being Alongside: For the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

  • Burnard, P. A. (2012) Musical Creativities in Practice, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Taber, K. S. (2009) Progressing Science Education, New York: Springer.

  • Leighton, R. (2011) Teaching Citizenship Education: A Radical Approach, London: Continuum.

  • Baumfield, V., Barnes, P., Bourque, N., Davis, R., Gallagher, T., Lowden, K., Lundie, D., Wenell, K. and Conroy, J. (2013) Does Religious Education Work? A Multi-Dimensional Investigation, London: Continuum.

  • Andrews, R. (2011) Re-Framing Literacy: Teaching and Learning in English and the Language Arts, Abingdon: Routledge.

  • Green, L. (2008) Music, Informal Learning and the School: A New Classroom Pedagogy, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing.

  • Husbands, C., Kitson, A. and Steward, S. (2011) Teaching and Learning History 11-18: Understanding the Past, Maidenhead: Open University Press

  • Lambert, D. and  Morgan, J. (2010) Teaching Geography 11-18: A Conceptual Approach, Maidenhead: Open University Press

  • Taylor, S. and Littleton, K. S. (2012) Contemporary Identities of Creativity and Creative Work, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing.

  • Gearon, L. F. (2013) On Holy Ground: The Theory and Practice of Religious Education, Abingdon: Routledge.

  • Jerome, L. (2012) England's Citizenship Education Experiment: State, School and Student Perspectives, London: Bloomsbury Academic

  • Watson, A., Jones, D. K. and Pratt, D. (2013) Key Ideas in Teaching Mathematics: Research-Based Guidance for Ages 9-19, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Winston, J. A. (2010) Beauty and Education, Abingdon: Routledge.

Establishing curricular connections and relevance for the lives of pupils is a constant challenge for teachers.  To help in meeting this need there have been calls for more use of local resources within the curriculum and attempts to personalize provision in a range of ways.

  • Thomas, L. (2010) The RSA Area Based Curriculum: Engaging the Local, London, RSA. (Reading 10.3)
  • Gilbert, C. (2006) 2020 Vision: Report of the Teaching and Learning in 2020 Review Group,  London: DfES. (Reading 10.6)

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