Towards a Curriculum for All: A Practical Guide for Developing an Inclusive Curriculum for Pupils Attaining Significantly Below Age-Related Expectations

by Dorchester Curriculum Group

• ISBN13: 9781853467738
• ISBN10: 1853467731
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-02-15
• Publisher: David Fulton Pub

Summary

Designing an inclusive curriculum for all pupils is not easy. The practicing teachers who have written this book offer clearly laid out ideas and objectives for learning that goes beyond the National Curriculum. It incorporates a holistic approach to the development of a relevant curriculum for pupils and students who experience profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD).

Table of Contents

Contributor profiles	iv
Foreword	v
Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	viii
Part 1: Philosophy and beliefs
Identifying pupils who experience PMLD	3	(2)
Including pupils who experience PMLD	5	(3)
Statement of principles	8	(2)
Specific aims	10	(5)
Part 2: Creating opportunities for learning
Thinking about learning	15	(8)
The relationship between experience and achievement for pupils who experience PMLD	23	(14)
Part 3: Constructing the whole curriculum
Time allocation and timetables	37	(5)
Target setting	42	(3)
Individual education plans	45	(2)
Schemes of work	47	(4)
Record keeping, assessment, reporting and review	51	(4)
Part 4: Practical materials
Rationale	55	(2)
Exemplar schemes of work	57	(87)
Appendices
1. School details	131	(2)
2. Individual education plans	133	(11)
References	144	(3)
Index	147