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"Collaborative Storyline is Curriculum for Excellence!" Class Teacher, Preston Tower Primary School
Storyline methodology supports planning at the intersection between curriculum and pedagogy across Curriculum for Excellence and the four contexts.
Storyline empowers children and young people to have more ownership and confidence in their learning, as well as engaging and motivating learners. It equips learners with the skills they need for learning, life and work, and gives them the confidence to apply these skills and process in unfamiliar contests. Storyline provides a safe environment in which to tackle complex and challenging issues.
The OECD report (2021) on Curriculum for Excellence highlights the importance of developing learners’ skills and how to apply these skills in contexts, including creative approaches to teaching and learning.
At a time of change for Scottish education, the refreshed curriculum reform recommendations, in particular from Muir (2022), Hayward (2023) and Withers (2023), have highlighted the need to develop skills-based pathways from Early Years through to Primary, Senior Phase and beyond, to ensure that children and young people are able to thrive living and working in Scotland.
“Children and young people (should be) at the heart of the education system”
Professor Kenneth Muir Putting Learners at the Centre (2022)
Storyline is a creative, learner-centred methodology
that puts learners at the centre.
Further Reading:
Interdisciplinary Learning: ambitious learning for an increasingly complex world. Education Scotland, NoTosh and Co-Design team (2023)
Putting Learners at the Centre: Towards a Future Vision for Scottish Education. Muir (2022)
Independent Review of Qualifications & Assessment in Scotland. Hayward (2023)
Fit for the Future: developing a post-school learning system to fuel economic transformation Skills Delivery Landscape Review. Withers (2023)
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