make the curriculum more relevant with pupils for the 21 st century
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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”. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Make the curriculum more relevant with pupils for the 21st 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”Sir Peter Ustinov
“Education is not about filling a pail but the lighting of a fire”W B Yeates
21st Century learning….Ask them?
The way we The way we learn needs learn needs
thinking thinking about in about in new and new and
better waysbetter ways
Good Good teachers teachers are open, are open, firm and firm and friendlyfriendly
Good teachers Good teachers ask me ask me
interesting interesting questionsquestions
Good teachers Good teachers help me learn by help me learn by giving the right giving the right amount of workamount of work
Good teachers
make me
think !
Good Good teachers are teachers are
funfun
What are we trying to achieve?
• A new professionalism
• Culture shift
• Curriculum making and sharing
• Seeing relationships
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
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.
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
Thinking About Curriculum Structures
“Curriculum for Excellence allows for both professional autonomy and responsibility when 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
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
Melbourne Girls’ College 4 6 6 6 6 6 6 1 1 1 1
Yr 12
Block A
Block B
Block C
Block D
Block E
FREE
Yr 11
Block A
Block B
Block C
Block D
Block E
Block F
TUTO
RIA
L
SAC
MA
KE
UP
TIM
E
Optional Sport
Yr 10
Block A
Block B
Block C
Block D
Block E
Block F
CAREERS/ CIVICS
(2)
SPORT
(2) Yr 9
WORLD OF IDEAS (9) - What Makes me Laugh? - Is Destiny a Choice? - Who Belongs in Richmond? - What Can I do to act Globally?
WORLD OF MATHS & SCIENCE (9) - Working Scientifically and Mathematically - Structure of Matter - Environmental Systems - Energy Systems
SIMPLY EXERCISE (4)
ELECTIVES (2 x 5)* - LOTE - Maths Accelerated/Extension/Basics - Science Philosophy/Pharmacology/ Cosmology/Engineering - PE Human Mov’t/Sport Action & Motivation//Outdoor Ed & Environmental - SOSE / ARTS Entrepreneurship/ ISMs/ Current Affairs/Youth Council/Arts in the Community/Community Studies/Life Skills – Real World/Events in Theatre/ Popular culture - Technology IT for Public Relations/Foods/Garments/Computer controlled models/Alternative Energy/Furniture Design/Multimedia animation
ARTS & TECHNOLOGY (8)
* SOSE (10)
* ARTS (9)
Yr 8
LOTE (9)
P.E / Dance / SPORT/ Health (7)
MATHS (5)
*ENGLISH(10) *SCIENCE (9)
Yr 7
T U T E T I M E 1/2 hr per day
MATHS (8)
SOCIAL WORLD Digging up the Past Futures Myths Our Neighbours (9)
PHYSICAL WORLD
Yarra River Cycles Local Area Sunburnt Country Survival in Space
(9)
ARTS (4)
TECHNOLOGY
- wood - plastics - food - textiles - (6)
P.E. - fundamental motor skills SPORT - choice of 4 sports per term (4)
M E E T I N G S ½ hr per cy-cle
*1/2 YR
Auchterturra Academy Cluster example high level curriculum ‘map’
From the perspective of the S1-S3 student the 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
… 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.
Numeracy
Enterprise
Science
Exp Arts
Literacy
ID projects
HWBeing
Technologies
The real r/evolution?
Organisation of learning focussed on the individual learner
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
“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”
Largest mammal
School of Sardines
Same mass as a Blue Whale ESP?Turn almost instantly
“..never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world – indeed it is the only thing that ever has….”Margaret MeadAnthropologist
Thinking outside the can….Committed Sardines
http://web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Home
Values, Purposes and Principles explained
A reference for normal mortals
The fun and easy way to
Nora Morra and Gerra WayAuthors of “From here to infinity” & “Gone in the wind”
A Curriculum for ExcellencePreface by Prof I M Auphill
Create professional-quality learning
Changing, the times
are…