Simplicitus: The Interconnected Primary Curriculum & Effective Subject Leadership

Simplicitus: The Interconnected Primary Curriculum & Effective Subject Leadership
Author: Emma Turner
Publisher: John Catt
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2022-04-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1915361222

Primary curriculum design has been in sharp focus in recent years. After leading on curriculum design and effective subject leadership for 24 years across multiple schools, Emma has written the handbook for both the complex thinking which underpins primary curriculum design and provided the practical models to make it work. There is much advice out there for primary schools but much is often dominated by voices not trained or experienced in primary practice. Emma outlines the unique considerations needed for designing and implementing a rich, high-quality curriculum which serves our youngest learners – a blend of academic thinking, educational research, the wisdom of decades of primary experience and a true love of the unique nature of primary. Primary curriculum design is a unique knowledge domain of its own and Emma explains and explores how this knowledge and the thinking around it needs to be championed and implemented through both academic and child development lenses. Rooted in experience, underpinned by successful approaches implemented in hundreds of schools – curriculum design in primary is complex and nuanced but it can also be 'Simplicitus'.

Simplicitus Altius: Leading the Interconnected Primary Curriculum

Simplicitus Altius: Leading the Interconnected Primary Curriculum
Author: Emma Turner
Publisher: John Catt
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2023-04-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1398372838

Simplicitus Altius is the companion book to Simplicitus: The Interconnected Primary Curriculum and Effective Subject Leadership. Building on the initial ideas from Simplicitus, this book now explores further challenges in effective curriculum design within primary including reading and its place in curriculum design, child development and movement, how to get started with writing your curriculum, how to produce usable, useful and workable documentation, planning for mixed age classes, and a complete evaluation section to get to the heart of your curriculum offer. Rooted in decades of experience and research, and packed full of exemplar materials and workable proformas, Altius unpicks and presents efficient solutions to some of the perennial issues faced by primary when designing a curriculum. The approaches contained within Simplicitus and Altius have been used successfully by hundreds of schools and thousands of primary colleagues both nationally and internationally to help design and evaluate their curriculum offer. Primary curriculum design can be challenging but it need not be difficult. It can be Simplicitus.

Powerful Classrooms

Powerful Classrooms
Author: Patrice M. Bain
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2024-09-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1394289278

Bring cognitive research to teaching practice with this practical toolkit How do you introduce the science of learning to your faculty? How do you leverage professional development to ensure that teachers continually apply that science within their classrooms? How can you maximize learning in your classroom through the use of researched and evidence-informed strategies? These are the questions Patrice Bain sets out to answer in Powerful Classrooms: Evidence-informed Strategies and Resources. This book is a follow-up to Powerful Teaching, in which Bain and Pooja Agarwal unlocked the secrets to successfully applying the science of learning in classroom settings. Now, Bain seeks to share her strategies with a wider audience of educators and school administrators. Patrice Bain is a longtime teacher and a leading voice in the science of learning. In this book, she uses easy-to-understand language to explain the latest findings from cognitive science about how humans learn best. Then, she offers practical techniques and activities for encouraging learning in any subject. Inside, you'll find: Clear explanations of the science of learning and how it can improve administration and classroom teaching Research-based practices that can be used everywhere from small-scale classrooms to large school districts A collection of the best articles, books, podcasts, and websites for further exploration For administrators, instructional coaches, and teachers looking for simple yet powerful practices, adding Powerful Classrooms into your educational toolkit will enhance student success through the science of learning.

Initium: Cognitive science and research-informed primary practice

Initium: Cognitive science and research-informed primary practice
Author: Emma Turner
Publisher: John Catt
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2023-09-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1036002535

The beginnings of all things are small, but the possibilities for our primary pupils are infinite. Many books explore the wonders of science and education research but few are rooted in the reality of the primary classroom, what it is really like to run a primary classroom, and to spend each day in the fascinating company of our youngest learners. Initium looks with care and specific attention at the needs of our youngest learners, the development of age and stage appropriate practice and pedagogy, alongside the joys and realities of working within the primary phase. Primary is a unique stage of a child's development and requires a specific and distinctive approach to how we structure teaching and learning. What works at age 16 or 14 won't necessarily work with a classroom of 6-year-olds. Informed by science and rooted in over 25 years of primary expertise, Initium is research-informed practice for the primary specialist.

Ports O’Call

Ports O’Call
Author: Michael D. O'Kelly
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2022-04-11
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1669818128

Existence has miraculously bequeathed Earth and Humanity and all species of life with “breath-brain” capacities to use forces of THE HOLD in so many Ports of Call victories leading to grasps of THE HELD wherein love-soul-mate belongsongs and their harmonies become families/cultures/arts of THE BEHOLDEN. Herein, poetries-sciences-thoughts launch a new journey HOME. It’s ancient CALL calls anew across a very old , newly heating plasticized, sea.

A New Exploration of Hegel's Dialectics I

A New Exploration of Hegel's Dialectics I
Author: Deng Xiaomang
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2022-05-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000547388

This volume reinterprets Hegelian dialectics via an exploration of the two origins of dialectics and illuminates how they constitute the inner tension at the heart of the philosophical system, developing into the forms of thought that fashion the history of western philosophy. As the first volume of a three-volume set that gives insights into Hegel's dialectics and thereby his overall philosophical thought, the book considers the linguistics spirit of logos and the existentialist spirit of nous in Greek philosophy as the two origins of Hegelian dialectics. The author argues that the two spirits form a dialectical unity of opposites and constitute the inner tension at the heart of the belief system. Based on this tension, this volume explains Hegel's problem of beginning that has the sense composed of both the starting point of logic and that of consciousness. Beginning in this twofold sense shapes dimensions of his methodology: immediacy and mediacy, the path of doubt and the path of truth, the linguistics lever and the existential lever. The title will appeal to scholars and students interested in Hegel and Marx's philosophy, German classical philosophy and Western philosophy.