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What Do We Mean by a Knowledge-Rich Curriculum?
In this session Heather will go back to first principles and explore why knowledge matters and what is meant by a knowledge-rich curriculum. She’ll discuss what this means for teachers and especially the implications of adopting a knowledge-rich curriculum for lesson design. She’ll consider some of the most common pitfalls when trying to adopt a knowledge-rich approach, for example, moving onto task design without clarity about content choices at different levels of granularity.
Heather Fearn
Heather is Director of Curriculum and Assessment for Ark, a network of English schools serving pupils in areas of high disadvantage. She was previously responsible for inspector training on curriculum for England’s school inspection body, Ofsted. As a Senior His Majesty’s Inspector, Heather led the ‘Curriculum Unit’ which was a team of subject specialist inspectors responsible for state of the nation subject reports. She contributed to the development of the most recent English national Education Inspection Framework and Initial Teacher Education inspection framework which were developed to provide a stronger inspection focus on curriculum quality.