Trivium 21c ltd.

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  • The Rise of the Stupid Teacher and Blogger

    In the Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels describe Capitalism as being a state in which “All that is solid melts into air…” Where new products replace old and new ideas ride on these products backs, a system in which all is replaceable man by machine and machine by man… Fredric Jameson refers to the post-modern Read more

  • Teachers, ‘Cheating’ and ‘Selling’ Achievement

    Does your school have a quasi ‘delivery unit’? If you’re not sure what this looks like or might be, a D.U. can be known by its actions. Do you have members of staff setting targets for other members of staff and also pupils to deliver? The delivery unit believes in continual improvement for the school: Read more

  • Teaching the Timeline: Chronology as Core Curriculum

    Originally posted on teacherhead: 600 years of history. Where to start? With the big picture perhaps. Increasingly, I find myself drawn to the issue of chronology; the importance of understanding the scale and sequence of historical eras and the framework for locating every event and every historical figure relative to every other.  This is the… Read more

  • Curricula, Curricula!

    Curricula, Curricula!

    Originally posted on Summer Turner: I love curriculum. Talking about it, playing with it, designing it, implementing it, enacting it, assessing it. (So much so that I often find myself singing ‘Curricula, Curricular’ to the tune of ‘Spectacular, Spectacular‘.) I spend a good part of my working life looking at, and a large chunk of… Read more

  • Our Rhetoric Roadmap

    Originally posted on teacherhead: Click to Download Yesterday we published this document, sending it out to parents. Since working with Martin Robinson on our Trivium-fueled curriculum, Rhetoric has been high on the agenda.  We appointed a Director of Spoken Literacy – Andrew Fitch, our 2 i/c in English – and he has produced some superb… Read more

  • Tradition vs Progress: a True Dichotomy

    Dichotomy: A division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different OED I keep seeing references from people, too numerous to mention, that traditional and progressive can happily co-exist as, in reality, it is a false dichotomy. There is a problem in this argument and that is tradition Read more