Powerful Curriculum

The fifth episode of series 1 is a conversation with Louise Hutton and Dawn Cox who have recently written Making Every RE Lesson Count, a book all about teaching good RE. We talk about what good RE looks like, how we might use different disciplinary lenses to get there and the future of our subject as it changes and reforms. This episode will provide anyone interested in RE with a taste of some of the debates and discussions currently going on in the subject as well as a view of how RE could (and maybe should) look in the future.  Making Every RE Lesson Count: https://www.crownhouse.co.uk/publications/making-every-re-lesson-count Louise Hutton: https://twitter.com/Mrslhteach Dawn Cox: https://twitter.com/missdcox Powerful Curriculum podcast: https://twitter.com/powerfulcurric AJ Smith: https://twitter.com/MrSmithRE

This week I'm joined by geography teacher and author-extraordinaire Mark Enser. Mark is a secondary geography teacher in Sussex and the author of books like Making Every Geography Lesson Count, Powerful Geography and Teach Like Nobody's Watching. He joins me to give us a flavour of some of the subject debates within geography, to talk about the joy of good fieldwork and discuss the power of knowledge in geography. Mark's Twitter: https://twitter.com/EnserMark Mark's blog: https://teachreal.wordpress.com/ Mark's books: https://www.crownhouse.co.uk/authors/mark-enser Powerful Curriculum on Twitter: https://twitter.com/powerfulcurric AJ's Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrSmithRE

The third episode of series 1 is a discussion with Mike Hill who teaches History at a secondary school in north-west London. We talk about the place of History on the British curriculum, the way theorising the curriculum has aided the subject, the concept of Worldbuilding in History and our hot takes on the hosting of In Our Time. Mike's Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaeldoron Mike's blog: https://intheoldendays.home.blog/ Powerful Curriculum Twitter: https://twitter.com/powerfulcurric AJ's Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrSmithRE

The second episode of series 1 is an episode with Neil Almond who teaches primary and works on the primary curriculum in London. We talk about the metaphor of the box set curriculum and just how far that will stretch and the pit falls and highlights of teaching the foundation subjects like RE, History and Geography in primary and the areas we'd love to include on a dream curriculum. Neil's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mr_AlmondED Neil's blog: https://nutsaboutteaching.wordpress.com/ Powerful Curriculum Twitter: https://twitter.com/powerfulcurric AJ's Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrSmithRE

The first episode of Series 1 of Powerful Knowledge is an interview with Joe Kinnaird who teaches RE in a secondary school in East London. We talk about the power of a knowledge-rich, multi-disciplinary RE curriculum, about Joe's work bringing scholarship into the classroom and the world of essay-writing in KS3. Follow our new podcast account: https://twitter.com/powerfulcurric Joe's Twitter: https://twitter.com/josephkinnaird Joe's blog: https://mrkinnairdre.wordpress.com/ AJ's Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrSmithRE The Writing Revolution available on Amazon