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Understanding the Framework

Gain understanding of the principles, curricular areas, and stages in the new Curriculum for Excellence. Identify priorities, prepare for implementation, and explore changes and innovations through videos. Uncover key points highlighting transformational change, increased autonomy, flexibility, and relevance in education. Discuss differences, opportunities, and challenges in the framework. Discover how the curriculum areas promote skills for learning, life, and work, integrating themes of enterprise, citizenship, and creativity. Embrace the flexibility to plan cross-curricular, thematic, and interdisciplinary learning experiences at different stages.

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Understanding the Framework

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  1. Understanding the Framework

  2. Aims • To be aware of the key principles of the new Curriculum for Excellence Framework. • To gain familiarity with the new curricular areas and different stages of learning.  • To identify opportunities and challenges created by the new Framework.  • To identify priorities and agree action to prepare for the introduction of Curriculum for Excellence.

  3. Activity 2: Introductory videos Possible questions • What are the main changes or innovations described by the various speakers in these films? • To what extent does this reflect your own perceptions or experiences of Curriculum for Excellence?  • Is it possible to identify a common or unifying theme emerging from these personal perspectives about Curriculum for Excellence?

  4. Activity 2: Summary of key points • Curriculum for Excellence (CFE) represents transformational change in our education system.  • CFE will increase the professional autonomy of schools and teachers.  • CFE provides much greater flexibility in curriculum design.  • CFE will help school meet the needs of all learners more effectively.  • CFE embraces the best practice in learning and teaching,  • CFE provides more relevance and coherence in children’s learning experiences.

  5. Activity 2: Summary of key points (continued) • CFE is less about what children are learning, and more about how they are learning.  • CFE provides more opportunities for personal learning and personal achievement.  • CFE promotes learning that is more active, more collaborative and more interdisciplinary.  • CFE is a licence to do things differently, and to do them better.

  6. Activity 3: Experiences and outcomes Possible Questions: • What are the most significant differences between Curriculum for Excellence and previous curricular arrangements?  • What is your reaction to the way that the new framework is presented – ie, described in learning experiences and outcomes? How do you envisage these being used by teacher and learners? Is there anything fundamentally new in this approach?   • What do you see as the main opportunities and challenges created by the new Curriculum for Excellence framework?

  7. Activity 3: Summary of key points • Curriculum for Excellence will give all children and young people the opportunity to develop knowledge, skills and understanding in 8 broad curricular areas. • These curriculum areas set out the experiences and outcomes that will help all learners to develop skills for learning, skills for life and skills for work. • Enterprise, citizenship, international education and creativity themes are embedded within into each of the different curriculum areas.

  8. Activity 3: Summary of key points (continued) • Curricular areas should integrate to provide more opportunities for cross-curricular, thematic and interdisciplinary learning. • There are 5 levels or stages within Curriculum for Excellence. • Schools have a lot more flexibility to plan and experience learning in a range of different ways.

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