Curriculum for Excellence: Experiences and outcomes

Once practitioners are ready to work with the experiences and outcomes, a unique online tool, called ‘My Experiences and Outcomes’ can be used to draw together different experiences and outcomes. It allows users to quickly and easily browse across different curriculum areas, organise their chosen outcomes into personalised groups, add notes and prompts to aid planning, and save these groups as a downloadable file – ideal for ongoing reflection and tracking.

This tool is available via Glow. Glow communities of practice are growing, creating a community of active contributors around Curriculum for Excellence. Each curriculum area has clearly signposted links to dedicated areas of Glow.

Following the link from the Curriculum for Excellence website, users find themselves in a collaborative environment, sharing branding with the public site, where discussion is taking place about the experiences and outcomes. Find out more about Glow on the website.

The tool has been warmly received by teachers. One teacher commented: 'Thank you so much for putting up the online planning application. It is exactly what I have been looking for, and selecting and saving the experiences and outcomes  works so smoothly.

Alan Armstrong, Director for Education Improvement at Learning and Teaching Scotland, says: 'This is a tool which can help people to engage with the experiences and outcomes in a more detailed, personalised way, allowing practitioners to focus on specific areas of the curriculum, and pull different experiences and outcomes together. 'However, it’s also a means to encourage professional reflection and to make it easier for a practitioner to compare how they are teaching at the moment against the experiences and outcomes' adds Alan.

Additional support

Further support for staff is provided within specific curriculum areas. For example, within the mathematics curriculum area there are materials for practitioners to use as they work with the experiences and outcomes in mathematics and numeracy.

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