Teachers need a bigger role in how the National Curriculum develops, according to the Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education and Training.
In a paper published this week, the Review warns that the National Curriculum is currently too centrally prescriptive, and warns it will only develop successfully if teachers, not government or its agencies, become key players.
The author of the paper, Professor Richard Pring, from the Department of Education at Oxford University, says that teachers are best placed to know the social and cultural background of their school and the pupils, and that knowledge could feed into the way the national curriculum is taught.
He suggests that teachers must be central players in curriculum
development, critically scrutinising, and adapting to their contexts,
any general principles which come from the centre.
For the 14-19 changes to work, there must be a transformation of teachers from 'curriculum deliverers' to 'curriculum creators'
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