Huh: Curriculum conversations between subject and senior leaders

Huh: Curriculum conversations between subject and senior leaders
Author: John Tomsett
Publisher: John Catt
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-09-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1914351495

Schools need to have purchase on the curriculum: why they teach the subjects beyond preparation for examinations, what they are intending to achieve with the curriculum, how well it is planned and enacted in classrooms and how they know whether it’s doing what it’s supposed to. Fundamental to this understanding are the conversations between subject leaders and their line managers. However, there is sometimes a mismatch between the subject specialisms of senior leaders and those they line manage. If I don’t know the terrain and the importance of a particular subject, how can I talk intelligently with colleagues who are specialists? This book sets out to offer some tentative answers to these questions. Each of the national curriculum subjects is discussed with a subject leader and provides an insight into what they view as the importance of the subject, how they go about ensuring that knowledge, understanding and skills are developed over time, how they talk about the quality of the schemes in their departments and what they would welcome from senior leaders by way of support. We have chosen this way of opening up the potentially difficult terrain of expertise on one side and relative lack of expertise on the other, by providing these case studies. They are suggested as prompts rather than the last word. Informed debate is, after all, the fuel of curriculum development. And why Huh? Well, 'Huh?' may be John's first response when he walks into a Year 8 German class but, in fact, we chose 'Huh' as the title of our book as he is the Egyptian god of endlessness. As Claire Hill so eloquently comments in her chapter, “Curriculum development is an ongoing process; it’s not going to be finished, ever.” And we believe that 'Huh' captures a healthy and expansive way of considering curriculum conversations.

'HUH' IS NOT A WORD

'HUH' IS NOT A WORD
Author: Millicent Nigrosh
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 39
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1466935499

This book tells the story of a little girl's search for the truth about the word huh.

Primary Huh: Curriculum conversations with subject leaders in primary schools

Primary Huh: Curriculum conversations with subject leaders in primary schools
Author: John Tomsett
Publisher: John Catt
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2022-04-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1915361265

There’s plenty to do when planning the curriculum in primary schools. If it feels daunting, then one of the most helpful things is to talk to other people about how they have developed the curriculum for their particular subject or key stage. This is what John Tomsett and Mary Myatt have done. After the secondary ‘Huh: Curriculum conversations between subject and senior leaders’ was published, they were flooded with requests to produce a primary version. They enlisted the help of renowned primary specialists, Rachel Higginson, Lekha Sharma and Emma Turner to have conversations with primary teachers and key stage co-ordinators who are doing great curriculum development work. Each chapter provides insights into the importance of individual subjects and the unique contribution each makes to pupils’ cognitive and personal development. The subject chapters discuss the steps colleagues take to ensure that there is a coherent thread across the year groups, as the discrete subjects deliver, collectively, the primary curriculum. These conversations show how the craft of creating a rich, challenging curriculum for every subject is not a quick fix. This is a nuanced piece of work, and there are many ways of approaching it. Each chapter also contains links to subject associations and helpful resources. Primary Huh has been written for subject leaders and key stage co-ordinators; it has also been written for senior leaders, as they prepare to have supportive conversations with their colleagues who are responsible for curriculum development. Primary Huh is offered as a prompt rather than the last word. Informed debate is, as they say, the fuel of curriculum development. And why have John and Mary called it ‘Huh’? Well, John discovered that Huh is the Egyptian god of endlessness, creativity, fertility and regeneration, and they thought that was a pretty good metaphor for their work on the curriculum!

America Huh! I'm Going Home

America Huh! I'm Going Home
Author: Valerie Owens
Publisher: America Huh! I'm Going Home
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2009
Genre: African American women
ISBN: 9781616581664

From 'Huh?' to 'Hurray!'

From 'Huh?' to 'Hurray!'
Author: Stephanie Stiles
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2010-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0761853375

Part textbook and part handbook, From 'Huh?' to 'Hurray!': Righting Your Creative Writing leads creative writers of all levels and all genres through the entire writing process. This accessible guide offers helpful suggestions to prompt and encourage even the most blocked writers to explore and develop their written word. Whether readers are working independently, with a class, or in a writers' group, the easy exercises contained within are created to inspire each to achieve his or her fullest potential. Structured around the basic elements of all good creative writing, From 'Huh?' to 'Hurray!' takes its readers through the process of creation and composition in brief and comprehensible sections. Each chapter offers an overview and several specific examples of its topic, followed by a set of clear exercises designed for writers of all varieties, from the novice to the pro, from the poet to the novelist. This text will certainly take a writer's work from huh? to hurray!

Primary Huh 2: Primary curriculum leadership conversations

Primary Huh 2: Primary curriculum leadership conversations
Author: John Tomsett
Publisher: John Catt
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2022-07-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1915361486

Huh is the Egyptian god of endlessness, creativity, fertility and regeneration. He is the deity Mary Myatt and John Tomsett have adopted as their god of the school curriculum. Their first book in the Huh series focused upon how school practitioners design the Key Stage 3 curriculum. Its popularity prompted calls from many quarters for a similar book on the primary curriculum. Supported by their primary colleagues, Rachel Higginson, Lekha Sharma & Emma Turner, Mary and John interviewed over 30 primary practitioners about how they design the primary curriculum. Considering the diverse nature of primary schools in this country, it’s not surprising that they were soon confronted with numerous context-dependent curriculum complexities. Designing the curriculum for small primary schools, for instance, means solving the conundrum of teaching the same subject at the same time to three different year groups in one class. The conversations confirmed that shaping a primary school curriculum is a tricky business! The wisdom gleaned from the genuine experts Mary and John interviewed was limitless. The material was so important it meant that they had too much for a single volume. Twenty-one of those thirty-plus conversations comprise the book Primary Huh, which focused upon the curriculum of each individual subject from EYFS to Year 6. In this companion book, Primary Huh 2, Mary and John give a platform to practitioners who lead on the broader issues of primary curriculum design, including, amongst other things: shaping the curriculum for mixed-age classes; designing and implementing a cross-MAT curriculum; building the “cradle to career” curriculum; timetabling; assessment; transition, and diversity. Primary Huh 2 is riven through with authentic voices grappling with the endless challenge of providing our children with a rich, challenging, ambitious, beautiful curriculum.

Huh, No I Don't Know It

Huh, No I Don't Know It
Author: Erick S. Tieman
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2012-09-14
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1477266909

To Confuse People huh, no I dont . By: Erick S. Tieman i wrote this book to help people remember. Just to leave people knowing i was here.

SEND Huh: curriculum conversations with SEND leaders

SEND Huh: curriculum conversations with SEND leaders
Author: Mary Myatt
Publisher: John Catt
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2023-06-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1036001342

Huh is the Egyptian god of endlessness, creativity, fertility and regeneration. He is the deity Mary Myatt and John Tomsett have adopted as their god of the curriculum. Their Huh series of books focuses on how practitioners design the curriculum for the young people in their schools. The Huh project is founded on conversations with colleagues doing great work across the education sector. In SEND Huh, Mary Myatt and John Tomsett discuss curriculum provision for pupils with additional needs with some of the leading experts in the field. Mary and John interviewed pupils, parents, teachers, headteachers, CEOs, educational consultants and lecturers. They then edited the transcriptions of those interviews to provide an ambitious, thoughtful, nuanced and challenging vision of what the best possible provision looks like for children with additional learning needs. The challenging conversations that comprise SEND Huh paint an inspiring picture that is hugely hopeful for the future of SEND curriculum provision in our schools.

A Quiet, Sleepy Little Southern Town HUH!

A Quiet, Sleepy Little Southern Town HUH!
Author: J.D. (Slick) Jackson Sturgis Miss.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2020-04-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1646281888

Rape and almost murder sends their pastor and his family from Missouri to Mississippi. His oldest, a son, is different but certainly no sissy, and he, along with his two sisters have important parts in this fictional novel. Interesting? Yes! Exciting? Yes! For all readers? Yes! Family number two has a major role to play too!