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COALA Meeting 28 October 2009

COALA Meeting 28 October 2009. Jeff Maguire Policy Manager – Modern Languages & International Education International Team, Curriculum Division, Schools Directorate. SMARTER OBJECTIVE. One of the Government’s 5 Strategic Objectives is to build a Smarter Scotland

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COALA Meeting 28 October 2009

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  1. COALA Meeting 28 October 2009 Jeff Maguire Policy Manager – Modern Languages & International Education International Team, Curriculum Division, Schools Directorate

  2. SMARTER OBJECTIVE • One of the Government’s 5 Strategic Objectives is to build a Smarter Scotland • 5 Objectives supported by National Performance Framework - 15 national outcomes and 45 indicators and targets. • 4th National Outcome is the 4 capacities of CfE. • MLs are an integral part of CfE – ML Es & Os launched 2 April, young people should achieve third level or higher by end of S3 across all Es and Os except specialised sets e.g. Classics, denominational RE and Gaidhlig (BtC3 pg 14)

  3. POLICY ENVIRONMENT 1 • The Scottish Government sees Modern Languages as key to achieving the overall purpose of creating a more successful Scotland with opportunities for all to flourish through increasing sustainable economic growth. ML Es & Os reinforce the expectation that young people will begin to learn a modern language no later than P6 and that learning and teaching will be exciting, engaging and relevant.

  4. POLICY ENVIRONMENT 2 • We live in a globalised world. We must prepare our young people with a range of knowledge and skills with which to engage in today’s increasingly multicultural and globalised society – a society where people may travel widely for jobs and need to speak a variety of languages for future living/working/studying/mobility purposes.

  5. MINISTERIAL COMMITMENTS 1 • Cabinet Secretary (opening West Lothian Confucius Classroom Hub on 30 Jan 2009) said • “Our education system .. has to provide young people with a knowledge and understanding of the world and Scotland's place in it - a thread that runs through Curriculum for Excellence for all young people, at all stages of their learning.”

  6. MINISTERIAL COMMITMENTS - 2 “We must ensure that our young people understand and can respond to the challenges that are presented by globalisation. If the curriculum is to be excellent, it must incorporate an international perspective; if it does not, our society and economy will be poorer. The Government is, therefore, committed to ensuring that an international education, including learning other languages, is part of the experience for young people in all our schools.”  Maureen Watt,Minister for Schools & Skills, SALT Conference, Nov 2008

  7. KEY RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MODERN LANGUAGES • Final Es & Os launched 2 April 2009 (for all curricular subjects and areas) – exemplification now being developed • Exam presentations holding up (except Standard Grade) and pass rates increasing • New qualifications – Scottish Language Baccalaureate, Modern Languages for Work Purposes, Chinese Languages at H and AH • China / Confucius Classroom Hubs progress

  8. EXAM PRESENTATIONS 2007/08 to 2008/09 • Increases in ML presentations at Int 1 of 10% and Int 2 of 13%. • Attainment in modern languagescontinues to be good, with pass rates rising at most NQ levels across the different languages and rarely dipping below 80%. • Increase in presentations in Spanish - 9% rise at Higher and 15% rise at Int 2, and Mandarin – up from 29 to 82 presentations • But 3% fall in overall ML presentations at H, bucking recent modest rises, and downward trend in German for some years now. (SG data except Mandarin for publicly-funded schools only)

  9. KEY ISSUES FOR FUTURE • Financial Pressures – public spending pressures for 2010/11 and beyond – implications for partnership working and best use of resources • MLPS/ensuring new and existing teachers are equipped to teach MLs within CfE • CPD provision under CfE • Exemplification

  10. INTERNATIONAL TEAM, CURRICULUM DIVISION • Tim Simons - Team Leader • Jeff Maguire - Policy Manager - Modern Languages and International Education • Hazel Waddell/Pamela Semple (Maria Gray returning in January • LTS, SCILT, BCS. International Education, China, International Benchmarking/OECD, Eurydice network, EU Education policy • David Doris - Policy Manager – Citizenship, Sustainable Development and Social Subjects • Tara Clark • Citizenship, Identity, and sustainable development education, Social Subjects. HET and NTS; 2014 Commonwealth and 2012 Olympic Games; Homecoming; National Conversation; European citizenship.

  11. SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT SUPPORT Schools Directorate International Team work with and fund key partners:- • Learning and Teaching Scotland - LTS • British Council Scotland - BCS • Scottish Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research - SCILT • Holocaust Educational Trust - HET • National Trust for Scotland - NTS to support teachers and schools across the country to develop and embed this work 

  12. CONTACT DETAILS Tim.Simons@scotland.gsi.gov.uk 0131 244 1676 Area 2B-South, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh, Jeff Maguire – 0131 244 0914 Jeff.Maguire@scotland.gsi.gov.uk David Doris – 0131 244 7585 David.Doris@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

  13. A final thought … "Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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