Ciricullum for excellence

[HerrenaHarridan]

Firstly cards on the table, I am not a school teacher and my daughter is home ed, this is not relevant but also is not hidden

I did curiculum for excellence (and Girfec) training the other day.

It was a really enlightening training course, the 'curriculum' itself is truly a thing of beauty, some great minds have really thought about what the ideal would be for each child's rounded development.

I wouldn't really want to add anything to it , seeing at its such an enormous document already but I did feel that they possibly could of bent their great minds to little more thinking about the practical applications of an individual administering the curriculum to up to 30 children at a time.

I did ask the instructor but he openly said it just wasn't possible.

So I have just few questions

1. have you actually read the whole document? :0
2. did you die of boredom?
3. do you have to cross reference your lesson plans with it?
4. how do you prevent dying of boredom?
5. what do you think needs to happen for this impossible ideal to become a reality for the kids who are living it?

Firstly, round of applause to ALL teachers.

Secondly, Scottish Attainment Fund? Nice idea, great idea in fact. Pity no one thought to bring up attainment while creating CfE. Oh wait, what's that, an election in the horizon. Aah, I see.

Thirdly, GIRFEC? Goes far beyond the school gates. And as your trainer said, even in school the practical implementation is, well, impractical.

Interested in the thoughts of others though. (Sorry to be so caustic too).

Oh dear. I didn't even answer your questions. Sorry. Double sorry for hijacking, very poor form.

Have read all the "building the curriculum" documents and all the stuff for my own subject and the cross-cutting themes ones (eg literacy) but not ones for a subject area I don't teach, eg art.
Boring? It's just work, not meant to be entertainment.
It's been around a few years now, have you been home educating for long?
Not enough time/resources/staff are perennial problems for teachers everywhere judging by these boards.