educação... reformas de sistema educativo... pela escócia [já que por cá andamos muito anglo-saxónicos... não será...?]... numa primeira abordagem...!

"The new Curriculum for Excellence, launched in 2011 in all Scottish state schools after many years of development, provoked a mixed response.

The new curriculum has two key aims: to develop the four capacities of Confident Individual, Effective Contributor, Responsible Citizen and Effective Learner in all young people while providing a curriculum which embraces the principles of breadth, depth, relevance, challenge and enjoyment, progression, personalisation and choice, and coherence. So far so good. Perhaps that sounds familiar even if we haven't in the past necessarily applied terms to what we, as educators, intrinsically do. But those aren't the best bits. The pièce de jelée, the Irn in the Bru, if you will, of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) is the fact that up to Secondary 3 (Year 10) there are no formal assessments which have to be administered as a way of measuring our learners' academic success.

Curriculum for Excellence is doomed to failure. Or at least it would be should the corps caught up in the current and ongoing wave of negativity and scepticism get its way. But where would that leave our young people? Scotland is at the dawn of what is arguably one of the most significant and innovative curricular changes in its history and you'd be forgiven for thinking that would have brought with it a wave of enthusiasm and an army of professionals stepping up to the challenge to make the educational experience of our young people meaningful, exciting and most importantly, fit for purpose.

While most teachers would welcome this philosophy, not least because it removes the onerous and devalued assessment process due to the pressures of "teaching to the test", the irony is that it's the seeming lack of "appropriate" assessment resources and materials which has whipped up the current maelstrom. And it's showing no sign of dying down given the relentless coverage in the national press and calls for Mike Russell, Scotland's Minister for Education, to delay the implementation of the first official set of exams and assessments (known as National 4 and 5) for a year. Which, he eventually did."

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para saber mais mais sobre aquilo que se vai passando na escócia... aqui.

mais adiante [e em devido tempo] irei dando conta de alguns documentos [de trabalho e estudos] que enformam a dita reforma...!