... of work are constructivist in their approach. Each module starts of with some sort of elicitation exercise followed by a descriptive, reflective and speculative hierarchy. All modules finish off with an End of Module Test (EMT) as required by government guidelines. I have found that there are advantages and disadvantages when teaching is solely based on the SoW. DISADVANTAGES OF ONLY USING SOW Without workbooks I found it very difficult to pitch the level for the various classes. The faculty worked on a spiral curriculum, so topics may be met repeatedly throughout KS3, building on previous knowledge. It took a while to realise when to stop when teaching a topic and pupils are sometimes impatient and think they have done the whole lot before. Scheme of Works were sometimes found to be outdated. For example, the 1st Chemistry module refers to classifying materials and relates properties to their uses and during ...

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