Powerful Curriculum
By AJ Smith
Powerful CurriculumApr 07, 2021
Episode 5: Dawn Cox and Louise Hutton on looking for good RE, the future of the subject and disciplinary lenses
The fifth episode of series 1 is a conversation with Louise Hutton and Dawn Cox who have recently written Making Every RE Lesson Count, a book all about teaching good RE. We talk about what good RE looks like, how we might use different disciplinary lenses to get there and the future of our subject as it changes and reforms. This episode will provide anyone interested in RE with a taste of some of the debates and discussions currently going on in the subject as well as a view of how RE could (and maybe should) look in the future.
Making Every RE Lesson Count: https://www.crownhouse.co.uk/publications/making-every-re-lesson-count
Louise Hutton: https://twitter.com/Mrslhteach
Dawn Cox: https://twitter.com/missdcox
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Episode 4: Mark Enser on powerful geography, avant garde fieldwork and useless knowledge
This week I'm joined by geography teacher and author-extraordinaire Mark Enser. Mark is a secondary geography teacher in Sussex and the author of books like Making Every Geography Lesson Count, Powerful Geography and Teach Like Nobody's Watching. He joins me to give us a flavour of some of the subject debates within geography, to talk about the joy of good fieldwork and discuss the power of knowledge in geography.
Mark's Twitter: https://twitter.com/EnserMark
Mark's blog: https://teachreal.wordpress.com/
Mark's books: https://www.crownhouse.co.uk/authors/mark-enser
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AJ's Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrSmithRE
Episode 3: Mike Hill on worldbuilding in History, meaningful historical knowledge and In Our Time
The third episode of series 1 is a discussion with Mike Hill who teaches History at a secondary school in north-west London. We talk about the place of History on the British curriculum, the way theorising the curriculum has aided the subject, the concept of Worldbuilding in History and our hot takes on the hosting of In Our Time.
Mike's Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaeldoron
Mike's blog: https://intheoldendays.home.blog/
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AJ's Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrSmithRE
Episode 2: Neil Almond on the box set curriculum and the pitfalls and highlights of the primary foundation subjects
The second episode of series 1 is an episode with Neil Almond who teaches primary and works on the primary curriculum in London. We talk about the metaphor of the box set curriculum and just how far that will stretch and the pit falls and highlights of teaching the foundation subjects like RE, History and Geography in primary and the areas we'd love to include on a dream curriculum.
Neil's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mr_AlmondED
Neil's blog: https://nutsaboutteaching.wordpress.com/
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AJ's Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrSmithRE
Episode 1: Joe Kinnaird on using scholarship in class, the power of RE and writing essays in KS3
The first episode of Series 1 of Powerful Knowledge is an interview with Joe Kinnaird who teaches RE in a secondary school in East London. We talk about the power of a knowledge-rich, multi-disciplinary RE curriculum, about Joe's work bringing scholarship into the classroom and the world of essay-writing in KS3.
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