Case Study - Introducing a Key Skills Curriculum - Lessons Learnt
I was intrigued as to why the Key Skills Curriculum was not sustained. Bümen, Çakarand Yıldız (2010) use the phrase curriculum fidelity to describe when teachers do not abide to the originally designed curriculum. They name several reasons for curriculum fidelity including, teacher characteristics, teacher training, curriculum properties and institutional features. One other reason, identified from my interviews with the teachers, is because I left the school. The curriculum may have been abolished due to any of these explanations. Either way, I was curious to learn from the experience and decided to explore this further, by developing some lessons learnt. Lesson One: Relationships are crucial This is one aspect of the implementation that I feel went very well. From the interviews, there is evidence to suggest that the people involved with the initiative worked effectively as a group, were cohesive and felt supported by me as an enth...