CURRICULUM SUBJECTS

Learning at Aylward is defined as “changes to long term memory”. The curriculum is based on academic research and cognitive science. Most students arrive at Aylward with educational debt. Therefore, the curriculum selects foundational knowledge and sequences this to build increasingly complex schemas so students develop from novices to experts. The selection of this foundational knowledge is in recognition that a novice vs an expert is domain specific. We ensure that the selection and sequencing of knowledge in our long term plans and Knowledge Maps is intentional and explicit to enable new knowledge to be more “sticky”.