Innovative curriculum design for personalised and self-directed learning
Secondary school timetabling involves the complex process of matching resources (teachers and rooms) with a group of students at a specific time. Get it wrong and you’d have to ask a teacher to clone themselves to cover two classes at once or have children roaming the halls with nothing to do.
Why is it so hard to schedule the right teacher with the right class?
Read MoreTraditional curriculum design is based on the delivery of segregated silos of knowledge, however, learning is more effective when it fulfils a real need and integrates of a variety of knowledge and information. In this Google Education on Air presentation we examine recent case studies from Wapping High School to demonstrate how technology is being used in the UK to embrace the concept of schools as communities of learners where students and teachers learn with and from each other.
Education on Air: Transforming traditional curriculum design, Wapping High School & The Innovation Unit
Our vision is to radically change the way that schools and teachers think about timetabling to enable more effective learning and increase student engagement.
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