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1 Transforming lives through learning Arts and culture education ‘Content and outcomes in Scotland‘ Education Scotland September 2013

2 Transforming lives through learning 1) How do secondary schools in Scotland choose the content for their arts and culture education?

3 Transforming lives through learning “Today’s learners are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach” (Marc Prensky)

4 Transforming lives through learning Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) approach to changing the national curriculum in Scotland transformation in education by providing a coherent, more flexible and enriched curriculum “totality of experiences” shaped and owned by those who will put it into practice

5 Transforming lives through learning The four capacities of CfE successful learners confident individuals responsible citizens effective contributors

6 Transforming lives through learning UNESCO learning to know learning to do learning to live together learning to be UNESCO Task Force on Education for the Twenty- first Century

7 Transforming lives through learning Expressive arts curriculum area includes: Art and design Dance Drama Music

8 Transforming lives through learning Entitlements continuous opportunities to develop skills for learning, skills for life and skills for work most “experiences and outcomes” up to the end of third level (Es and Os) a broad general education (BGE)

9 Transforming lives through learning Experiences and Outcomes (Es and Os)

10 Transforming lives through learning Fourth level Fourth level experiences and outcomes provide a basis for more advanced study and further scope for depth, challenge, enjoyment, personalisation and choice. (All areas) I have experienced the energy and excitement of presenting/performing for different audiences. EXA 4-­01a (Dance) I can select ideas from a range of stimuli to choreograph dance motifs in creative ways. EXA 4-­09a

11 Transforming lives through learning Principles and practice essential reading for practitioners; inspiration and power of the arts sets out the purposes of learning in the expressive arts a starting point for planning creating, presenting and evaluating and appreciating

12 Transforming lives through learning Principles of curriculum design Challenge and enjoyment Breadth Progression Depth Personalisation and choice Coherence Relevance

13 Transforming lives through learning 2) On what basis (theory, skills, competences like creativity, development of knowledge and understanding) do teachers, school leaders or education developers make their choices for content and quality in their curriculum?

14 Transforming lives through learning The four capacities of CfE: successful learners confident individuals responsible citizens effective contributors

15 Transforming lives through learning Successful learners … who can express themselves, think innovatively, meet challenges positively and find imaginative solutions to problems and who have developed knowledge and skills related to the different arts and broader skills such as the use of technologies.

16 Transforming lives through learning Confident individuals … who have developed self-awareness, self- discipline, determination, commitment and confidence through drawing on their own ideas, experiences and feelings, and through successful participation.

17 Transforming lives through learning Responsible citizens … who can explore ethical questions, respond to personal and social issues, and develop stances and views, who have deepened their insight and experiences of cultural identities and who have come to recognise the importance of the arts to the culture and identities of Scotland and other societies.

18 Transforming lives through learning Effective contributors … who can develop and express their creativity, work cooperatively and communicate with others, and in so doing, show initiative, dependability, leadership and enterprise.

19 Transforming lives through learning Practitioners are asked to draw upon a skilful mix of approaches to promote a climate of creativity and innovation, including: active involvement in creative activities and performances tasks or performance opportunities which require a creative response opportunities to perform or present to an audience partnerships with professional performers or artists and other creative adults raising awareness of contemporary culture and connecting with young people’s experiences appropriate, effective use of technology building on the principles of Assessment is for Learning (AifL) both collaborative and independent learning establishing links between the expressive arts subjects and with the wider curriculum opportunities to analyse, explore and reflect.

20 Transforming lives through learning Assessment In assessing the quality of learning in the expressive arts, practitioners will focus on learners’ skills and abilities to express themselves through: Creating Presenting Evaluating and appreciating

21 Transforming lives through learning 3) Do they focus on certain disciplines, on the crafts within the disciplines, on multi-discipline activities or coherence with other subjects?

22 Transforming lives through learning Expressive arts framework presentation and performance across the arts, then discrete subject areas – Art and design Dance Drama Music Practitioners focus on providing experiences and developing learners’ practical skills

23 Transforming lives through learning 4 contexts for learning the ethos and life of the school as a community curriculum areas and subjects interdisciplinary projects and studies opportunities for wider achievement

24 Transforming lives through learning Interdisciplinary work e.g. collaboration with technologies subjects in the study and application of design processes e.g. collaboration across the arts in film making or school productions (plays, musicals)

25 Transforming lives through learning Delivering the curriculum through expressive arts Pilrig Park School, Edinburgh

26 Transforming lives through learning Responsibility of all Literacy Numeracy Health and wellbeing

27 Transforming lives through learning

28 4) What is the impact from learning in expressive arts?

29 Transforming lives through learning Impact learners : develop knowledge, understanding and appreciation of contemporary and historical arts enjoy numerous and diverse opportunities to contribute to, reflect on and respond to the arts

30 Transforming lives through learning develop lifelong appreciation of, and participation in, expressive arts and cultural activities can express themselves in innovative, motivating ways, and experience enjoyment and enrichment in their lives apply their creative skills to produce and perform more complex pieces of work and to recognise creativity and skill in the work of other people

31 Transforming lives through learning Disengaged learners Learning in arts education plays a large part in building confidence in learners, including learners who are often disengaged with all other learning.

32 Transforming lives through learning 6) Why do teachers teach what they teach?

33 Transforming lives through learning Influences curriculum based entirely on the tenets of Curriculum for Excellence practitioners’ own skills, interests and specialist areas learners’ strengths and interests available resources, including access to arts professional and organisations

34 Transforming lives through learning 7) What are the outcomes and content delivered by expressive arts?

35 Transforming lives through learning Broad general education (BGE) “Experiences and Outcomes in the Expressive Arts” (3-15) “totality of experiences” 4 contexts for learning development of the 4 capacities

36 Transforming lives through learning The senior phase build progressively on the 3-15 broad general education progress in their learning towards a positive destination after school accredited through awards from the national examining body, the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) development of the 4 capacities

37 Transforming lives through learning www.educationscotland.gov.uk


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