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When designing your curriculum and making decisions about learning and teaching you will be drawing on a range of sound evidence. This will include disciplinary-specific expertise, learning from professional enquiry, intelligence from research, including local, national and international information.
The Camau i’r Dyfodol project is working with practitioners to move forward our shared understanding of progression and assessment. You can read about the project in our previous blog.
The Schools as learning organisations (SLO) model in Wales has been developed over the course of several years, based on work with the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development).
The Collaborative Evidence Network (CEN) involves higher education institutions and other organisations that have looked at impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on various aspects of the education system and on particular groups of learners. They examine ways to mitigate those impacts, as well as ways practitioners and learners can be better supported moving forwards.
In our blog post in June, we told you that the Welsh Government was working in partnership with the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) to support evidence-informed practice. Lizzie Swaffield, from the EEF, met with Curriculum for Wales Policy group members in Swansea recently to look at the opportunities and challenges of using EEF resources in the Welsh context and in the context of the Curriculum for Wales.
Using reliable evidence and expertise can support schools’ confidence that their approaches are appropriate. For example, there is evidence, of learners’ progression in literacy when explicit and systematic teaching of phonics is part of a wider whole-school approach that also supports their comprehension, vocabulary and spelling development in a language rich environment.
A new literacy area on Hwb will make it easier for practitioners to find supporting materials, resources and case studies related to learner progression in listening, speaking, reading and writing. As part of this, all schools will be able to access information about Microsoft tools which help learners develop literacy. More will be added to the literacy area in the coming months.
Information for practitioners about reading and information for parents and carers has also been collated in handy new guides.
If you are a practitioner in a school or setting that uses the Curriculum for Wales and have a passion for working with others to co-construct solutions, please complete the Expression of interest form for the Policy Group reserve list.