This is the 5th post in a series about how we are designing our own post-levels curriculum and assessment model from scratch.

The story so far:

• The Spy Who Loved Us – Part 1: “The name’s Beyond…..”
• An Ethic of Excellence
• Using cognitive science to inform curriculum design
• Assessing without levels

This latest update contains a miscellany of information and ideas that I’ve shared at our second curriculum conference and most recently at the Dare to imagine – Education for the 21st century conference and the Cramlington Festival of Learning TeachMeet.  It attempts to pull together more detail on:

• context and why we are moving away from levels
• the interplay between curriculum planning and assessment
• tracking of progress

It also includes a number of curriculum planning tools that could be used to adopt a common planning framework.

A new taxonomy?

Most of us are familiar with Bloom’s taxonomy and the SOLO taxonomy, however, the end of statutory levelled…