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Make the curriculum more relevant with pupils for the 21 st Century

Make the curriculum more relevant with pupils for the 21 st Century. Perhaps schools won’t look like schools. Perhaps we will be using the total community as a learning environment Anne Taylor; Creating the Future. “ This boy shows great originality which must be curbed at all costs”.

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Make the curriculum more relevant with pupils for the 21 st Century

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  1. Make the curriculum more relevant with pupils for the 21st Century

  2. Perhaps schools won’t look like schools. Perhaps we will be using the total community as a learning environmentAnne Taylor; Creating the Future

  3. “This boy shows great originality which must be curbed at all costs” Sir Peter Ustinov

  4. “Education is not about filling a pail but the lighting of a fire” W B Yeates

  5. 21st Century learning…. Ask them?

  6. The way we learn needs thinking about in new and better ways

  7. Good teachers are open, firm and friendly

  8. Good teachers ask me interesting questions

  9. Good teachers help me learn by giving the right amount of work

  10. Good teachers make me think !

  11. Good teachers are fun

  12. What are we trying to achieve? • A new professionalism • Culture shift • Curriculum making and sharing • Seeing relationships

  13. Challenges? Time! Shift from focus on content to more of a shift in how we engage of our learners Partners Need to revise our concepts around partnerships & sharing Outcomes Release schools to develop their own solutions as opposed to developing centralised solutions Support Help schools/staff to share emerging practice

  14. Improving Scottish Education2 - 2005-08 “In taking forward Curriculum for Excellence, local authorities, schools, colleges and their partners have a very significant opportunity to use their professional judgement and ingenuity as they translate the new broad guidelines into practice.

  15. Some Key Messages from “Improving Our Curriculum Through Self-Evaluation” • Curriculum for Excellence is a time of change to less prescriptive forms of curriculum guidance • Schools need to innovate to respond to the needs of their learners and communities • The concept of the curriculum has been expanded to include the totality of experiences which are planned for children and young people. This requires us to expand our thinking about the totality of experiences that comprises a curriculum fit for the 21st. century

  16. Thinking About Curriculum Structures “Curriculum for Excellence allows for both professional autonomy and responsibilitywhen planning and delivering the curriculum. The framework provides flexibility - such flexibility will result in a more varied pattern of curriculum structures to reflect local needs and circumstances” Building the Curriculum 3 p.10 - 11

  17. Curriculum Leadership • “Headteachers and senior staff play a key role in setting out the strategic direction of the curriculum…. But they cannot make the necessary changes on their own.” • “Curriculum leadership demands individuals and team members to collaborate.” • “Developing the curriculum is everybody’s job” Improving Our Curriculum Through Self-Evaluation – HMIe 2009

  18. Melbourne Girls’ College

  19. Auchterturra Academy Cluster example high level curriculum ‘map’

  20. From the perspective of the S1-S3 studentthe challenge for us is to move schools on from: ……a structure of organisation and curriculum delivery that emphasises subjects and departments that are visited by pupils through uniformity: Maths History Physics English Analogue curriculum

  21. … to one that recognises the S1-S3 learner as the centre of coherent and complimentary activity. … i.e. A move towards small curriculum teams working from a recognised base with a defined cohort of students, working flexibly as the needs of learners and learning dictate. Literacy Numeracy Enterprise ID projects Science HWBeing Technologies Exp Arts

  22. The real r/evolution? Organisation of learning focussed on the individual learner

  23. Best unit of change for CfE? “We need to promote alternative models where the key unit of change resides within a community’s schools” Don Ledingham 2008

  24. “The education system needs to wise up and get away from its existing assumptions...Where it is implicit that practitioners are resistant to change, need to be ‘fixed’ and are essentially passive receivers of information”

  25. Largestmammal

  26. School of Sardines Same mass as a Blue Whale ESP? Turn almost instantly

  27. “..never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world – indeed it is the only thing that ever has….” Margaret Mead Anthropologist

  28. Thinking outside the can…. Committed Sardines http://web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Home

  29. The fun and easy way to Create professional-quality learning Preface by Prof I M Auphill A Curriculum for Excellence Values, Purposes and Principles explained A reference for normal mortals Nora Morra and Gerra Way Authors of “From here to infinity” & “Gone in the wind”

  30. Eddie Broadley Area Adviser LTScotland Email at: e.broadley@LTScotland.org.uk

  31. Changing, the times are…

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