biddenham curriculum review 2009 10
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How can we improve achievement at AS level?TRANSCRIPT
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Biddenham Curriculum
Review 2009-10
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This week’s live issue:
How can we improve
achievement on AS courses?
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Do we spoonfeed KS4 students?
• Does this undermine development of the skills needed for AS courses?
• If we made all students study an applied course in KS4 would this:– Teach them skills they need for AS?– Increase spoonfeeding?
• Should we teach PeLTS in year 11?
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Dumbed down?
• Have GCSEs have become so easy that intelligent students pass without doing much work & then assume that they can do the same at AS level?
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Are we allowing too many weak
students onto AS courses: "setting them up to fail".
• Should we increase the entrance requirements?
• How do we decide what they should be?
• For all subjects or some subjects?
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Should we have a trial period for AS
students?• How long should it last?• Should they be allowed to
switch to another subject if they “failed” at the first subject?
• Should they be required top study the Access course instead.
• Would this lead to a super-motivated start to AS?
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Should we teach
PeLTS?• In year 11 or at AS?
• Will PeLTS lead to Deep Learning?
• Should we teach PeLTS instead of Critical Thinking or the EPQ?
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Should we increase the number of BTEC level 3 courses?
• Are we creating a sheep and goats curriculum?
• Will we spread the number of learners over too many courses pushing some subjects over the cliff of viability?
Why aren’t the goats
doing this?
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Should we encourage more students to take the Access
course?
• Would a three year Sixth form be acceptable to many?
• Do we need to change what the Access course offers to achieve this?
• Is this more sheep and goats?
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AS at present: Personalisation
– We offer a wider range of subjects at AS then anyone locally but Sharnbrook.
– We have six option blocks to reduce clashes and maximise choice*.
– We expect all students (except ex Access students) to study 4 AS subjects
*However, this means that period 6 becomes inevitable for some sixth form students.
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AS at present: Inclusion – We have the lowest
entrance requirements for AS courses locally.
– We offer a limited number of level 3 non-AS courses
– We make it very difficult for students to drop an AS subject or to change to another one
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AS at present: Achievement
– We only offer 4⅜ hours teaching per week for each subject as opposed to the national benchmark of 5 hours per week.
– We expect all AS students to study Critical Thinking
– We have a 78% pass rate (A-E) at AS.
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Contribute, comment, advise, inform:
• Contribute to the Biddenham Curriculum Review wiki. You can access this using the following details:– http://sites.google.com/site/sites/system/app/pages/
meta/dashboard– User name: [email protected]– Password: improvement
• Email [email protected]• Respond on the Sharepoint debate• Put a note in DA’s pigeonhole