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Opening Minds

Teaching, Learning and Assessment on Competence Based Programmes

Report

01 Dec 2012

The latest Opening Minds Action Research explores the connections between planning and delivery for OM lessons and achieving and outstanding lesson. There emerged several common features of OM lessons which had the potential to contribute to outstanding teaching and learning. In addition, several teacher behaviours were identified as having link to outstanding criteria.
Opening Minds through Shakespeare

Blog

16 Nov 2012

This, believe it or not, is a photograph of a year seven pupil improvising Romeo and Juliet. Even more surprising is that this pupil was one of a group that started this Shakespeare workshop only a few hours earlier professing that they either knew nothing about Shakespeare or that what they did know of him was “boring”.
Opening Minds: An evaluative literature review

Report

01 Jul 2012

What do we know about the effectiveness of competence-based curricula?
RSA launches new family of schools

Press release

05 Jul 2011

Whitley Abbey Community School, a business and enterprise college based in Coventry, is to become the first member of a new RSA Family of Academies that share best practice, work for school improvement and promote social justice in education.
RSA Academy celebrates its move into its new building

Press release

22 Nov 2010

Students attending the RSA Academy in Tipton will from benefit from a new state-of-the-art £35m building. And to kick off the celebrations, the RSA's President, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh will be making a return visit to the school.