curriculum – Anthony Cockerill

Refresh your planning and teaching in the English classroom with this helpful tool

An intuitive sequence of learning can simplify your planning, provide your department with a common language to talk about teaching and learning and help ensure progression for your students. Software engineers at Apple – so the story goes – had spent months working on elaborate interfaces for an app that allowed users to burn video…
Devising a scheme of learning as part of a thematic curriculum: an in-depth example

How to plan a scheme of learning as part of a thematic curriculum: essential advice Planning a scheme of learning as part of a thematic curriculum In a previous blog post, I advocated for the benefits of a thematic curriculum in the Engish classroom, arguing that structuring learning by theme provides a conceptual schema that allows…
Why a thematic curriculum is brilliant for Key Stage 3 English (and why it’s also great for your GCSE students too)

A thematic curriculum allows us to learn about those important touchstones of literary study alongside cultural totems of our time. Why a thematic curriculum? Spoiler alert. In the excellent film Arrival (2016, Denis Villeneuve), Amy Adams plays Louise Banks, an interpreter who is called upon to make sense of the multimodal scrawlings of intergalactic visitors…