Scotland's Curriuclum for Excellence Explained by a Newly Qualified Teacher
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Thank you for this video. As a teacher who did not do their teacher education in Scotland, it was a very useful introduction to help me understand the curriculum for excellence
Glad it was helpful for you!
I have been a teacher for 20 years in England and recently moved to Scotland. So this info you have given has been very helpful
I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
Thank you SO much for this video! I’ve just come over from the States. I’m searching for a primary teaching job near Perth. I’m currently awaiting approval to work from the GTCS. Thank you for helping me understand the Scottish curriculum better!
You are very welcome! I hope you find a job you love soon
Applying for a PGDE in Primary Education in Scotland. Having came from a slightly different professional background, I'm trying to do my research. This has helped massively! Thanks
Glad to hear it, good luck with your application!
Thanks. Moving to Scotland from England so this helped loads.
I'm glad to hear it!
I just got accepted into a PGDE secondary course for this summer. Your videos helped me a lot preparing for my interview so thanks a lot.
Congratulations! I hope the course goes well for you and I'm glad that my videos have been helpful for you
Thanks that was a really useful oversight for me. You made it much clearer than the actual ScotGov paraphernalia does.
Just trying to keep it simple eh! It took me a while to get my head wrapped around the curriculum too
I'd be really interested in seeing a series of videos about how you use the Es and Os and Benchmarks as your starting point and build a lesson plan or progression of lesson plans. In other words - how do you turn all of this into an actual learning experience.
What a great idea! I'll look into filming something like this
This was amazing help for my interview next week, thank you!!
I'm glad to hear it, I hope the interview went well!
I know this was posted almost a year ago, but I am an elementary school teacher in the USA and I have been considering moving to Scotland to teach. While I am at the beginning phases of learning how my degree will transfer, how to apply for a work visa, etc, I have also taken a dive into understanding the key differences and similarities between the CFE in the UK and the Formative Assessment practices we follow here in my state of Arizona. Broadly speaking, I see so much that speaks to what is being done in the USA within your explanation of the Curriculum for Excellence. While I am unsure if I can manage a move of this size, I am certainly going to continue learning and your video was my first exploration into the voice of the teachers in the UK. Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I am more than eager to keep going.
What a lovely comment! I am glad that my video has helped you a little and is a good starting point for your research prior to moving. I wish you all the best, no matter what decision you make!
Nearly 2 in the morning and I'm mid break down writing an essay around the CoE, thanks for the help lol
Hopefully the essay ended up alright ahaha!
Hi Hollie. Thanks for posting this. I appreciate your video. It did give me a basic history of the policy and a general outline of how it functions specifically for teachers (which I assume is your intended audience). As a parent (and an American parent of a Scottish pupil) I will need to dig a lot more into how it is actually implemented at my sons school. My journey into understanding this is specially from a parents perspective. I have become extremely frustrated with all the copy/paste jargon his teachers use to justify their curriculum, along with their complete inability to answer basic questions about the goals of their classes and the progression of the students. This video helped me understand that I am not alone in this criticism. The Benchmark portion was incredibly interesting to me. As a parent I have never seen any reference to this in the materials we are shown. Everything presented to us is incredibly vague and any attempts to ascertain specifics about what is being taught, and what the expected outcome of the courses are is met with resistance leaving me with no clear metrics from which to judge my sons progression and skills. This combined with the dramatic deemphasis on homework makes it nearly impossible to keep track of, support or supplement, or provide assistance to my son in the areas he may be struggling.
As the son of teacher I know how bureaucracy and assessments can exhaust teachers and it can be weaponised against them to justify funding cuts etc, but surely there has got to be some metrics presented by which to evaluate the performance of a school and its staff. Can you recommend any resources which should be publicly available to parents for all schools in Scotland to asses this?
Thank you for your comment! I have just posted a video this evening about the planning process; that video might give you more of an insight into how these documents are used and the steps that teachers *generally* need to follow when planning for a term of teaching. In the description section of that video, I have also left links to the Curriculum Benchmarks, Experiences and Outcomes which you may want to look over
@@HollieMcRae Thank you so much Hollie.
Thanks for sharing as I am planning to become a secondary teacher :)
Great insight, thank you!
I am actually starting my school in scotland tomorrow. I am new here so i am very nervous. Watching this helped me understand a bit more. Thank you.
Thank you for your comment, I'm glad you enjoyed my video. I hope your first day went well!
@@HollieMcRae yes, it did!
Very helpful. Thank you!
Brilliant video thank you
This was great!! Very helpful 😄thanks ❤
I'm glad that you enjoyed!
Thank you very much this is a fantastic video.
Thank you, I spent a lot of time on it!
Many thanks for this! I am training as a Secondary Gaelic teacher, and was wondering if we still use CfE E's and O's and Benchmarks in the Senior Phase? Many thanks in advance!
I'm sure the Es and Os stretch to 3rd year of secondary and then a slightly different programme is used. I could, however, be wrong as I haven't ever studied secondary teaching!
You know your stuff! Thanks for this 🙂
You are very welcome, thank you!
Brilliant video. I have a question though. Do Scottish schools (primary in particular) have prescribed textbooks by the government? At what grade students start to carry textbooks issued by the school and tested upon? I come from a country where there is a textbook for every single subject in all grades which is issued by the ministry of education. All students in all schools have exactly the same textbook in their respective grades.
There are numeracy textbooks which match up to the first and second level Es and Os but I've not seen any for other subjects. Pupils do not have their own textbooks, they stay in the school for when they are needed. As teachers, we are also encouraged not to teach from the textbooks. Instead, we are only to use them occasionally to accompany lessons
I grew up with Standard Grades. Had to do 8 subjects and RME. I didn't know at the time but I had specific learning difficulties - dyspraxia and mild dyslexia. How does the CfE address is these issues?
Ametrine Moon the equivalent of standard grades falls within the ‘senior phase’ in the curriculum for excellence, which was not discussed in this video. The curriculum doesn’t set out what to do to assist those with learning differences, it is at the discretion of the school/teacher and the training they have received
As a nursery worker in England, this was very interesting
emma 3mm4 glad you enjoyed!
Hello there! As a graduate from Brazil who had an experience as an exchange student in Scotland (Aberdeen more specifically), I found these facts about the Curriculum very interesting! I didn’t have any experience with primary-levels or high school education but in university I think the system is really well-designed and functional. I just have one question/curiosity: as someone who grew up inside that system and it’s now teaching it, do you think that it has actually worked? From a theoretical point of view it seems wonderful but I am intrigued as to how realistic all those principles are. Thank u! 😘
Matheus de Carvalho Santos I’m glad you enjoyed the video! The curriculum for excellence was introduced then I was in p4/5 and at that point, I wasn’t really aware of the ‘curriculum’ and how I was being taught. I was just going to school and getting taught by teachers. Teaching it, however, there are obviously advantages and challenges but then again, I don’t have anything else to compare it to when teaching
Miss McRae I see... My sister is an English teacher over here, so I’m always fascinated by the “Education” subject. Thanks for answering and good luck in your profession! :)
@@mcs3210 Thank you!
This was good,thank you.
Glad you enjoyed!
Does anyone know how to see/access the publication date on videos via the new updated UA-cam?
I'm afraid I don't know. I do, however, know that I posted this video in July 2020
@@HollieMcRae Thank you for your help - from a new ma4 student! :)
Brilliant video! However, I have a few questions.
An Undergraduate course in English for 3 years, Masters degree in English(for 2 years) and B.Ed(Bachelor of Education around 10 months).
1) Would it be enough to be eligible for Scotland? Or would I still have to do PGDE?
2) Do I have to do PGDE in the UK only in order to be eligible? Or is it okay to do it in other countries if available and still be eligible for Scotland?
3) Do I need to do any other courses aside from PGDE?
4) Are there any scholarships available regarding PGDE for people not from Europe?
I'm glad that you found my video useful!
Unfortunately, I am not too sure about the answers to many of your questions. I am only clued up on the route that I took and even still, that may have changed slightly since I began/graduated. I never completed the PGDE as I did am MA degree in education, so you'd be best to check on relevant University websites
Is this basic framework good to know in your interview for Primary teaching?
It would be good to have a basic understanding of it as it shows that you have taken some initiative to learn about the curriculum that you want to be teaching, but I would be surprised if they ask you any specifics!
CfE cannot be implemented in Scotland. Economic inequalities in Scotland are huge and school attainment gap is a big problem. CfE is a vision which ignores the economic and social problems as well as class issues. The children of established middle class will continue to perform well under CfE. Without solving housing problems, economic problems, social programs, CfE itself will not improve education in Scotland.
Hey, I have a question. I'll be doing English Undergraduate in my own country. So, can you say what do we need to do to be eligible for teaching English in Scotland? Like after completing UG, what should we do?
You can do a Post Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) but entry requirements will be different for each university, so I'd recommend having a look on each university's websites
@@HollieMcRae How do I know which universities to look at? I'm sorry if this is a dumb question because I'm very new to all of this. Thank you for sparing your time!
@@inmarcesible_sonrisa I am not too sure as I am no longer in the university loop. I know that Aberdeen has a PGDE programme but I don't know about any other unis. A quick google search will get you all the answers you need