Aims for today

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Learning and Teaching for A Curriculum for
Excellence

• Aims for today
• To update staff on a A Curriculum for Excellence.
• To be familiar with the strategic direction of
  CEC for effective learning, effective teaching
  and understand how this direction works towards A
  Curriculum for Excellence.
• To identify useful strategies.
• To use the personal learning planning process.

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A Curriculum for Excellence Daniel
McGintyEngagement team, A Curriculum for
Excellence 19 September 2006MurrayfieldEdi
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Aims of the presentation

• To confirm the values, purposes and principles of
  A Curriculum for Excellence
• To provide an update on recent and imminent
  developments
• To share innovative school responses
• To consider key messages for schools

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• A Curriculum for Excellence Values, Purposes and
  Principles
• Values
• Wisdom
• Justice
• Compassion
• Integrity
• Purposes
• Our aspiration for all children and for every
  young person is that they should be
• successful learners,confident
  individuals,responsible citizens andeffective
  contributors
• to society and at work
• Principles
• Challenge and enjoyment
• Breadth
• Progression
• Depth
• Personalisation and choice
• Coherence

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Looking at the curriculum differently

• unified 3 18 curriculum
• contexts for learning ethos and life of the
  school
  curriculum areas and subjects
  interdisciplinary projects and
  studies
  opportunities for personal achievement
• emphasis on teachers commitment to update skills
  and knowledge

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• If we are to be successful in our aim of
  preparing young people for the challenges of the
  future, we will rely even more on individual
  teachers commitment to refreshing and updating
  their own professional skills and knowledge
• Progress and proposals
• p21

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Proposed achievement framework
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Whats new?

• Writing teams have been appointed
• Intensive work on the contribution of curriculum
  areas
• Over 1000 schools on register of interest
• Improvements in strategic responses from
  education authorities
• Many schools have included A Curriculum for
  Excellence in their improvement plans
• Connections being made between A Curriculum for
  Excellence and The Journey To Excellence
• Emergence of innovative practice

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Some examples of innovation

• Teachers placing the four capacities at the heart
  of their work
• Schools taking a whole-school approach to
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  enterprise
  citizenship
  
  
  health
  sustainable development
• Schools introducing personalisation and choice in
  S1 and S2
• Schools being imaginative in their arrangements
  for timetabling learning

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Key messages for schools

• A Curriculum for Excellence promotes a new
  culture for learning. How are we responding to
  this challenge?
• A Curriculum for Excellence has been placed on
  many school improvement plans. What progress are
  we making with the priorities which we
  established?
• Do our arrangements for CPD ensure that teachers
  are spending professional time on developing
  their awareness and understanding of A Curriculum
  for Excellence?
• Are we making the emerging good practice known to
  our colleagues?