The Learning Curriculum 3.0

Three years ago, the pilot cohort of our Teacher Education Fellows programme faced a problem. We found clear explanations of student learning, but we lacked equivalent guidance about how to teach teachers these principles.

We wondered:

• How we should sequence learning about these principles?
• How we could evidence and illustrate these principles accessibly yet defensibly?
• How we could check teachers’ understanding?

We codified their experiences and ideas into The Learning Curriculum: a guide for teacher educators teaching teachers the science of learning.

Each year, a new cohort of Teacher Education Fellows uses The Learning Curriculum, and helps us to refine it – we are now able to launch Version 3.

Among the improvements in this version, we have:

• Provided more examples of practice in early years and primary settings
• Offered separate guidance on possible applications and training activities for novice and experienced teachers
• Made non-examples less obvious, to help teachers think harder about them
• Provided a technical appendix offering further reading about each principle

We hope you find this third edition more useful than the second; we look forward to making the fourth edition even better, with your help.