Curriculum levels

Questions for reflection and response

1. Understanding the Experiences and Outcomes

• How do the experiences and outcomes build upon your current practice?
• What knowledge, experiences, capacities, activities, and skills could be developed within the experiences and outcomes?
• What learning and teaching activities and approaches do they suggest to you?
• How could the principles of Curriculum for Excellence be developed through the experiences and outcomes?

• Within each line of development which words, concepts or contexts indicate the progression from one level to the next?
• What are the prior knowledge, experiences and skills which have been developed in earlier experiences and outcomes?
• Within a level, can you see opportunities for depth and breadth and for providing rich, challenging experiences for all learners, including those who may progress more slowly through a level?
• How appropriate do you consider the gradient of progression across all the levels to be?
• How do you envisage recording and transferring information about progress in learning?

• What opportunities can you identify for integrating the expressive arts with other areas of the curriculum?
• How would you plan to collaborate with colleagues to develop links between expressive arts and other areas of the curriculum?
• In what ways will a leadership role, by yourself and others, be needed to take these experiences and outcomes forward?