Earlier this week we saw the announcement of the new GCSE in Natural History.
I blogged about it here, and there has been a great deal of response to it.
This has the potential to offer an opportunity for a curriculum co-creation project. I've teamed up with Anthony Bennett to start a Facebook group to see if we can build a community of those who have an interest in teaching the qualification. Over the next few years, there will be plenty of work needed by the awarding body to submit specifications for approval.
I wonder how the vision of Mary Colwell and others will need to be tweaked to accommodate the inevitable pressures from various directions with respect to issues within the specification. How radical will it end up being? How critical of government action to protect our natural history will it be?
This teacher networking around a new qualification is something I've been involved in before - creating the Edexcel 'A' Level NING site which ended up with over 3000 members, and a community of people helping each other teach a new and challenging qualification with new content and limited awarding body support to begin with.
Join the group here - there are a few questions to answer just so that we have a group which is respectful of the opinions of others and starts to move towards
We already have over 500 members of the group after just a couple of days.
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