Year+9+Project+Humanities

=Year 9 Project Humanities=

Creating a year 9 curriculum

Humanities from September 2010 will be 7x75 min lessons per fortnighly cycle. This will be an opportunity to build close working relationships with our students, to get to know them really well and therefore be able to tailor their learning to their personal needs. It will be an opportunity to carry out extended projects with a depth and scope not achieved before.

What do we want to achieve in our curriculum?

We would like to introduce a more specific focus on Project Based Learning. The context for these changes centre on the development of the L2L course in Year 7 (which embeds the foundation of L2L skills and attributes in all learners) and the introduction of the new Trans-disciplinary-units (TDU's) in Year 8. The TDU are specifically designed to promote collaborative group enquiry based learning experiences. Humanities in Year 9 will take up the development of L2L skills and learner attributes in a subject context. Therefore, it is essential that we build upon the work done in TDU

Where do you start in transforming our year 9 curriculum?

Above all we need to recognise the journey we have made in the last two years. There has been significant progress in our understanding and execution of enquiries with students in year 7 and 8 and a series of critical evaluations has allowed us to pare down what we do and how we do it.

How do you successfully marry 21st century skills with an integrated humanities approach?What are the critical ingredients to a successful humanities course?One which focusses on the values and attitudes associated with topics and issues. True humanitarians show an acute awareness of the world around them, they understand where societies have come from. And perhaps most importantly they are aware of their place in the world and how they can influence the world they want to live in. 21st century humanitarians are also tuned into the global picture of society, the development and intracies of cultures and how they interact with each other. More than ever an awareness of how religion, cultural identity and personal values shape actions around the world are essential for a pupils successful participation in global society. What are the skills essential to students of Humanities?

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