What will be the unit of change for CfE?

Eddie Broadley, Area Adviser, LTS

More likely

Tilting at Windmills

Learning to change, changing to learn

“We need a curriculum which will enable young people to understand the world they are living in, reach the highest levels possible of achievement, and equip them for work and learning throughout their lives.” Curriculum for Excellence 2007

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“A goal of the curriculum review is to give teachers more freedom to teach in innovative and creative ways.”

Progress and Proposals

5-14 Guide

TP 21

Moving from this..

to…

Building the curriculum

The curriculum: all that we plan for children and

young people’s learning –

across 4 contexts

7 Principles for planningChallenge and enjoyment

BreadthProgression

DepthPersonalisation and choice

CoherenceRelevance

Experiences and outcomes

8 curriculum areas

6 Entitlements

Including broad general education;

Senior phase; Skills for learning,

for life and for work

Values

Wisdom, justice,Compassion, integrity

Values

Wisdom, justice,Compassion, integrity

Effective teaching and

active,sustained learning

Effective teaching and

active,sustained learning

Support

for learningthrough choices and changes

into positive and sustained destinations

Support

for learningthrough choices and changes

into positive and sustained destinations

Assessment, qualificationsSelf-evaluation and

Accountability,Professional development

aligned with purposes

Assessment, qualificationsSelf-evaluation and

Accountability,Professional development

aligned with purposes

Best unit of change?

‘By the age of 16, the average adult in the UK will have done 75% of the writing they will do in their lifetime’

In the UK,98% of

12 year-olds want “to do well at school”

And yet, only 38%

look forward to going to

school.

7 out of 10 7 out of 10 teenagers have a teenagers have a

handheld games machinehandheld games machine

9 out of 10 9 out of 10 teenagers have a teenagers have a home computerhome computer, a , a mobile phone mobile phone and a and a games consolegames console

84%84% of young people play of young people play computer games at least once a computer games at least once a

fortnightfortnight

72%72% of teachers of teachers nevernever play play computer gamescomputer games

The world our kids are going to live in is

changing four times faster than our schools

Dr Willard DaggertDirector of International Centre for

Leadership and Education

Organising Learning

R / evolution?

“When the going gets tough, the tough get traditional”

Ian Jukes, ‘Closing the Digital Divide’

“The past is a point of reference not a place of residence”

Kriss Akabusi

"Every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganized.

I was to learn later in life that we tried to meet any new situation by reorganizing,

and a wonderful method it was for creating the illusion of progress whilst producing confusion, inefficiency and

demoralization."

Gaius Petronius (AD 166)

One of the only places One of the only places operating largely as it did operating largely as it did more than 50 years ago more than 50 years ago

would be the local schoolwould be the local school

Nummela and Caine; Making ConnectionsNummela and Caine; Making Connections

Successful Learners Confident Individuals Responsible Citizens Effective Contributors

Literacy?

“Competence and confidence in literacy …are essential for progress in all areas of the curriculum. Because of this, all teachers have responsibility for promoting literacy and language development.”

Progress and proposals

In times of radical change, the learners inherit the earth

while the learned find themselves perfectly equipped

for a world that no longer exists

Erik Hoffer

Involve me and I Involve me and I understand.understand.

Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC

Tell me and I forget.Tell me and I forget.Show me and I Show me and I

remember.remember.

Existing systems produce existing results.

If something different is required the system must be

changed

Sir Christopher Ball; More Means Different(from a report on widening access to Higher

Education)

'Insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results' Albert Einstein

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

The major advances in civilisation are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur

Alfred North Whitehead

‘80% of the jobs that current Primary 1 pupils will do, do not exist yet’

BT Futurologist 2005

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