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Visit to Queen’s University, Kingston Ontario stimulates curriculum thinking
A recent visit to the Education Faculty at Queen’s University gave David Barlex much to think about.
The lecture on assessment in mathematics given by Bob Wilson and Lynda Colgan revealed interesting thinking about the efforts being made in Ontario to produce rich mathematics task that relate to daily life. Those concerned with the developing STEM agenda in England will find their work interesting and useful.
A curriculum development project relating maths, science and design & technology had its first meeting. The project will identify the mathematics and science embedded in a design & technology curriculum unit in which pupils design and make a large statue of a creature that can be friendly (and welcome visitors to a classroom during the day) or fierce (and deter intruders to the classroom after dark) (hot link to primary solutions unit Should your creature be fierce or friendly) and produce an exemplar of how teaching, learning and assessment in the three subjects can be linked and support one another. The project team are Azza Sharkawy, Joan McDuff, Malcolm Welch and David Barlex.
A meeting with Cristián Cox, until recently Minister of Education for Chile, revealed a mutual interest in the relationship between education in design & technology education and citizenship and the increasing significance of citizenship education in both Chile and England.
Last Updated Wed, 5 March 2008