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Enhancing Scottish Education: Curriculum for Excellence Seminar

Dive into Curriculum for Excellence with Dan McGinty, an engaging team leader from Learning and Teaching Scotland. Reflect on Scottish education's impact, priorities, and implications for professional practice. Explore values, purposes, principles, and learning organization, and discuss current priorities and next steps. Engage in activities to evaluate the curriculum overhaul's potential. Website links provided for further information. Email key contacts for inquiries.

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Enhancing Scottish Education: Curriculum for Excellence Seminar

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  1. PINS seminars June 2007 Dan McGinty, Engagement team leader Curriculum for Excellence Learning and Teaching Scotland

  2. Purposes of this session Curriculum for Excellence: • reflection on your experience of Scottish education’s ability to meet the needs of all young people • headline summary of Curriculum for Excellence • current priorities • next steps • implications for our professional practice • reflection on contribution of Curriculum for Excellence to meet the needs of all young people

  3. Activity 1 Scottish education does many things well and some things particularly well. • Spend 5 minutes reflecting on how well this statement reflects your personal professional experience. • Discuss your views in your group. • Summarise the key issues raised in three main statements.

  4. A Curriculum for Excellence: values, purposes and principles Values • Wisdom • Justice • Compassion • Integrity Purposes • Successful learners • Confident individuals • Responsible citizens • Effective contributors Principles • Challenge and enjoyment • Breadth • Progression • Depth • Personalisation and choice • Coherence • Relevance

  5. Organising learning Organising learning through curriculum areas - to provide breadth • Health and wellbeing • Languages • Mathematics • Science • Social studies • Expressive arts • Technologies • Religious and moral education

  6. Cross-cutting themes • Literacy and numeracy • Health and wellbeing • Citizenship • Enterprise • Creativity • Sustainable development

  7. Contexts for learning • ethos and life of the school • curriculum areas and subjects • interdisciplinary projects and studies • opportunities for personal achievement

  8. Proposed achievement framework

  9. Current priorities • research: finding out • curriculum architecture: thinking • writing teams: updating • schools using new approaches: innovating • engagement activities: informing listening

  10. Next steps: 2007-2008 • publication of learning outcomes and experiences: phased approach • pilot projects in all education authorities • developing our thinking on curricular architecture • engagement with the profession: SCQF 4 and 5 recognising wider achievement • glow: networking opportunities

  11. Implications for our professional practice • Research: sharing • Learning outcomes and experiences: reading and sharing • Contexts for learning: contributing to developing thinking • Hearing the voice of all pupils

  12. Activity 2 Curriculum for Excellence will bring a radical overhaul of the curriculum and the learning experiences of young people. • What are your first thoughts on what has been presented? • Share your views in your group. • Summarise the main points in four main statements. • Ask any questions you have (some of which we can explore immediately, others later).

  13. Website information Curriculum for Excellence www.curriculumforexcellencescotland.gov.uk/ Glow www.glowscotland.org.uk Key contacts dmcginty@ltscotland.org.uk

  14. Curriculum for Excellence 2007 d.mcginty@ltscotland.org.uk

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