Learning Alignment Model
Tom Barrett,
Tom Barrett's Blog,
Apr 26, 2019
I like the thinking here even if I'm not keen on the overall result. The thinking begins with a set of astute observations about what students actually learn in a classroom. It proceeds by identifying several layers of curricula - the recommended curriculum derives from experts in the field, the written curriculum is found in the documents produced by the state, the taught curriculum is the one that teachers actually deliver, etc. What the students learn is ultimately different from any of these - as Dylan Wiliam says, "children do not learn what we teach." John Barrett concludes by proposing, in diagram form, a 'learning alignment model' (based o John Biggs's. constructive alignment). It has the usual failings of educational theory - it's a taxonomy, in the form of a pyramid, that is ultimately unsatisfying.
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