Overview

The recent government changes to assessment in the UK, together with an increased requirement to develop a rigorous curriculum, has meant schools and school leaders are challenged to take curriculum and assessment design seriously. With this new focus and freedom comes excitement but also unease, as teachers sense a gap in their expertise when it comes to designing new systems. Simultaneously, the nature of CPD has been reinvigorated in the digital age with teachers inspired by online resources, Twitter and educational blogs. The result? Teachers are taking their development into their own hands and re-professionalising teaching! Bringing together these two movements, this compelling book provides an opportunity for teachers to grasp what curriculum and curriculum-driven assessment means, and how to tackle the task of curriculum and assessment design at subject and whole-school level. Taking on some of the key arguments, philosophies and theories alongside strong practical examples from schools, Summer Turner offers advice and provides examples of how to design a system that works for your pupils. The book provides a set of ready-to-use training plans to help you train your colleagues in curriculum and assessment design and is accompanied by PowerPoint slides available to download online for free. It offers 28 hours of CPD, equating to a cost of just 82p per hour of training!

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'Summer Turner skilfully manages a devilishly tricky task: making curriculum and assessment accessible and interesting. This book provides a great overview of these complex concepts, providing useful questions, tools and wider reading that make it a valuable CPD resource.' Alex Quigley, teacher, author and advisor in the Teacher's Development Research Group for the Department for Education 'Assessment and curriculum is almost a lost art in some segments of the education sector. We've been de-professionalised and dislocated from the art for so long that it can seem like an impossible task to get to grips with either again. Summer offers practical and research-supported techniques for doing just that. She is a brilliant and articulate new voice on the educational writing stage, and we need more books like this.' Tom Bennett, Behaviour Advisor to the Department for Education and founder of researchED Summer's 'scenarios' are my 'why' for driving up standards in teacher education. Someone tweeted recently: we are a profession, not a vocation and need be behave and act accordingly - Summer addresses this through her exploration of what effective CPD should look like for teachers and curriculum leaders. Hannah Wilson, Headteacher and co-founder of #WomenEd This is an engaging, lively and well written book which takes a refreshingly original approach to curriculum and assessment design. It draws on the author's experience as an English teacher as well as Director of Teaching and Learning at the East London Science School. Unlike most books on curriculum and assessment directed to teachers, it is not just a handbook, but locates its practical suggestions in the wider theoretical debates about the purpose of schooling. Michael Young, Professor of Education University College London, Institute of Education

`Summer Turner skilfully manages a devilishly tricky task: making curriculum and assessment accessible and interesting. This book provides a great overview of these complex concepts, providing useful questions, tools and wider reading that make it a valuable CPD resource.' * Alex Quigley, teacher, author and advisor in the Teacher's Development Research Group for the Department for Education * `Assessment and curriculum is almost a lost art in some segments of the education sector. We've been de-professionalised and dislocated from the art for so long that it can seem like an impossible task to get to grips with either again. Summer offers practical and research-supported techniques for doing just that. She is a brilliant and articulate new voice on the educational writing stage, and we need more books like this.' * Tom Bennett, Behaviour Advisor to the Department for Education and founder of researchED * Summer's `scenarios' are my `why' for driving up standards in teacher education. Someone tweeted recently: we are a profession, not a vocation and need be behave and act accordingly - Summer addresses this through her exploration of what effective CPD should look like for teachers and curriculum leaders. * Hannah Wilson, Headteacher and co-founder of #WomenEd * This is an engaging, lively and well written book which takes a refreshingly original approach to curriculum and assessment design. It draws on the author's experience as an English teacher as well as Director of Teaching and Learning at the East London Science School. Unlike most books on curriculum and assessment directed to teachers, it is not just a handbook, but locates its practical suggestions in the wider theoretical debates about the purpose of schooling. * Michael Young, Professor of Education University College London, Institute of Education *

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Summer Turner is a secondary teacher at East London Science School where she is Head of Faculty for English and Languages and leads on Teaching and Learning, including Curriculum and Assessment. As part of her role at East London Science School, Summer has developed a new curriculum for English, has been an advisor for curriculum development at whole school level and was a lead member of the team which designed their KS3 assessment system. She is also an active voice within the teaching community: blogging about teaching and education, and regularly speaks at teaching events such as TeachMeets, Pedagoo and BETT.

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