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UK teachers restricted by prescriptive curriculum

Teachers are expected to adhere so strictly to the national curriculum that they do not have the freedom to respond to the needs of students, says a teaching union leader.

Teachers are under pressure to follow the national curriculum so rigidly they can no longer react to what their students are learning, a teaching union leader warned today. Schools fear inspectors will criticise them if they do not obey the national curriculum to the letter, said Julian Chapman, president of the NASUWT

Originally published on digitallearning.eletsonline.com.

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