Education and Children's Services

Date

ACfE team
and partners

Curriculum Review Process

Local Authorities

Schools

Teachers

to
end Jan 06

Continue with phase 1 engagement – raising awareness in local authorities with HTs and teachers.
Complete round of HT conferences

Preparation of rationale and specifications for next phase of work

Promote ACfE with schools.

• Lead or facilitate inservice/presentations on the values, principles and capacities

Lead or facilitate inservice/presentations on ACfE values, principles, capacities

Become familiar with ACfE values, principles and capacities

Recognise current contributions to the 4 capacities and maintain these ways of working

26 Jan 06

Share 3 illustrative  rationales with EA contacts for comment and advice

Share initial thinking on overall curriculum architecture with EA contacts for comment and advice

ACfE EA contact attends Stirling meeting

• Offer advice on illustrative rationales and architecture

Late February 2006

Publication of HMIe Improving Scottish Education Document

Plan meetings – focus groups, regional fora/seminars as appropriate

Recruitment of staff for second phase underway

Next steps in each curriculum area agreed

Plan for ACfE to feature in Authority Improvement Plan LEA improvement plans eg

• Plan for sequence of engagements over next
  year – with rationales, Learning Outcomes and architecture
• Identify staff who can contribute to inservice training
• Plan inservice provision to meet needs of teachers / support staff etc

Ensure all schools are ready to include engagement with ACfE in their forthcoming improvement plans

Plan for ACfE to feature in Improvement Plan

Promote values, principles and capacities with staff. Encourage appropriate small changes to teaching and learning

Continue familiarisation with ACfE values, principles and capacities.

Early  March 2006

To

end June
2006

ACfE ‘forward look’ document made available to schools

Early part of this period – agree and publicise terms for financial support in ‘06/’07

Focus groups/seminars taking place

Draft Guidance on the Curriculum under preparation

Develop strategy to resource CPD and implementation

Concentrated work on the  curriculum areas;

• Cross cutting themes
• Overlaps and omissions
• Principles and capacities evident?
• Loading and appropriateness at each stage
• Breadth and balance

Completion of draft Learning Outcomes

Identification of CPD/inservice requirement

Tentative consideration of implications for NQ courses post 15

Promote ACfE with schools.

• Complete plans for spending Executive funding for ACfE
• Submit funding requests as appropriate for cross-boundary working
• Feedback EA view of ‘forward look’ document

Offer opportunities to school staff to think about and debate/discuss ‘forward look’ document

Participate in local/regional fora

Continue to consider how school can start to address the values, principles and capacities now

Consider trailing element of the ‘forward look’ document

Identify inservice training requirements of staff

Become familiar with ACfE values, principles and capacities

Engage in debate on the ‘forward look’ document, between and within schools. Respond with issues, concerns, endorsements to EA

Continue to think about how they can address some of the principles and capacities in their class now

Identify personal inservice training needs

early September 2006

to

end December
2006

Learning outcomes for curriculum areas
shared at EA meeting (date to be confirmed) along with Guidance on the Curriculum

Provide advice on engagement strategy

Draft learning outcomes from curriculum groups prepared for engagement in schools

Draft guidance on the curriculum prepared.

ACfE LEA contact attends meeting

Lead or facilitate inservice/seminars to discuss learning outcomes and Curriculum Guidance

Encourage selected schools to trial  aspects of the output from the curriculum review groups and associated guidance on the curriculum

Feedback Authority views on Curriculum Guidance and details of subject area learning outcomes

Engagement with ACfE programme included in improvement plan.

Lead or facilitate inservice/presentations on learning outcomes and curriculum guidance

Engage in debate on the learning outcomes. Respond to EA with issues, concerns, endorsement

Participate in trialling.

Engage in debate on the learning outcomes. Respond with issues, concerns, endorsements
Think about how they can trial some parts of some curriculum areas in their classroom

January 07

to

June 07

Summarise and interpret issues from engagement.

Learning outcomes from curriculum groups ready

Launch guidelines (curriculum, ) with EA contacts and schools

Provide advice to EAs on implementation strategies

Learning outcomes modified on advice from the engagement process.

Final rationales and guidelines prepared.

ACfE LEA contact attends launch meeting

Plan for support to schools in following year.

Schools enter  year of familiarisation, preparation and development – implementing the guidelines in part, planning how best to capitalise on available flexibility etc

Teachers enter year of familiarisation, preparation and development