Curriculum & Assessment Review - are you planning your response yet?
As you may know, the Labour government has set up an independent review of the curriculum for children and young people aged 5-19 in England, led by Prof Becky Francis.
They are calling for evidence on what is working well and what needs changing, and how and why, and at NATECLA we feel it is very important that as many ESOL teachers, managers, departments and learners/former learners send a response about what is and isn't working for EAL and ESOL young people (up to age 19). The deadline is 22nd Nov and we hope that the attached ideas and prompts will help you. If you work in a college/provider in England that has 16-19s, send them something about ESOL to add to their institutional response too. The review will accept our professional experience and expertise as evidence, alongside research evidence, and you can answer as many or as few questions as you like.
Helpful hints from FE Week on making our voices heard.Read the introduction to the Call for Evidence , p 4-5.Read NATECLA's suggestions for responses to the most important questions, and use /adjust as much of it as you like: Curriculum and Assessment Review NATECLA suggestions.docxPaste your answers into the DfE online response form.
We will send you our final NATECLA responses in a week's time, so you can add to yours if you wish before the deadline. If you want to get in touch with our working group, or send us some of your evidence, please email NATECLAresearch@gmail.com.