This webinar series launches an extensive project for the Chartered College, Rethinking Curriculum. The project aims to support and equip teachers and school leaders with the knowledge and skills to identify, plan and implement curriculum development work in a sustainable, context specific and impactful approach. This will mean that all pupils will have access to an expansive, inspiring curriculum that connects them with local communities and enables them to lead healthy, fulfilled lives.
Our webinar series brings together teachers from a range of settings to consider their curriculum and how the work of our experts could develop their work further. Our series of 3 webinars cover:
- Rethinking Curriculum – Teaching for creativity and creative thinking: why it matters, how to do it and how to evidence progress in the creative thinking skills of your pupils
- Rethinking Curriculum – Finding the balance of a knowledge led curriculum
- Rethinking Curriculum- Making your curriculum choices ambitious
Event attendees will have access not just to the events but to supporting materials and resources in order to start discussions in their settings.
In this second session you will hear from Clare Sealey, Head of Curriculum and Standards for the Committee of Education, Sport and Culture, Guernsey.
The session will be hosted by Jenna Crittenden from the Chartered College of Teaching and will include the opportunity for attendees to pose their own questions to Clare.
Clare Sealy worked as a primary headteacher in Tower Hamlets for 22 years. She is the editor of the ResearchED Guide to the Curriculum and contributed to the Chartered College Handbook for Early Career Teachers. in 2019 the TES named her as one of the ten most influential people in education. In 2022, Clare received an OBE for services to education.
Jenna Crittenden is Curriculum Design Lead at the Chartered College of Teaching, leading a national project ‘Rethinking Curriculum’ that aims to support and equip teachers and school leaders with the knowledge and skills to identify, plan and implement curriculum development work in a sustainable, creative and place based approach. This will mean that all pupils will have access to an expansive, inspiring curriculum that connects them with local communities and enables them to lead healthy, fulfilled lives. Prior to joining the college Jenna has been a Primary Headteacher, Curriculum Design lead, governor and also acts as a trustee for MTPT.