What is Curriculum?

Teacher
1. Core subjects of literacy, numeracy and health & wellbeing.
  1. Experiences and Outcomes
2. Curriculum for Excellence
  1. Aims to offer more freedom to teachers to tecide what to teach and when
  2. Encourages more project based learning. For example, one topic encorporates many curriculum areas.
  3. Not a curriculum?
3. Draws on professional judgement
  1. Supports learning
  2. Informs Teaching
  3. Thinks critically, works collaboratively, evaluates practice
Pupil
1. Can make decisions about what they would like to study
2. The child can learn about subjects that are relevant to the child and their community. This will differ between schools and can be area specific.
3. Pupil-centred approach. The learning is taught around the needs of the child.
4. Accessible, lessons are designed in such a way that suits the learners within that class.
5. Four Capacities Effective Contributor Successful Learner Confident Individual Responsible Citizen
  1. How do you test this?
Parent
1. Understanding different backgrounds
2. Encouraging positive relationships between home and school
3. Focus on extracurricuar acticvities
4. Mixed messages
  1. Meetings to discuss intervention, lack of resources to follow through
curriculum [kuh-rik-yuh-luh m] noun 1. The aggregate of courses of study given in a school, college, university, etc
Hidden Curriculum
1. Teaches beyond 'core' subjects
2. Transfers society beliefs and values
  1. Social norms
  2. Responsibility for self
3. Conveyed by teacher
  1. Labelling
  2. Inclusion
  3. Beliefs and Values
Government
1. Policy
  1. National Improvement Framework
    1. One plan for improving attainment
    2. Potentially narrowing the curriculum
  2. Conflicting/confusing message
2. Tells teachers to improve standards but not how.

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