what will be the unit of change for cfe? eddie broadley, area adviser, lts
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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