Building your curriculum A Broad General Education

A broad general education will include all of the experiences and outcomes across all curriculum areas up to and including the third level, together with those selected for study at the fourth. These should be experienced by all pupils, as far as this is consistent with their learning needs and prior achievements.experiences and outcomescurriculum areasthird level

Every child and young person is entitled to expect their education to provide them with …. A broad general education, including well planned experiences and outcomes across all the curriculum areas from early years through to S3. (Building the Curriculum 3 page 4)

Points to remember Broad general education continues until the end of S3 Experiences for all Broad general education - not a common course Design of experiences and outcomes - to raise cognitive demand - means no leaping over levels Planning for the totality of the curriculum – the importance of the experiences and outcomes Connections across curriculum areas Application of principles of curriculum design

The past is a point of reference not a place of residence Kriss Akabusi

? What does this mean for YOU

Workshop task Task 1 More detail around a Broad General Education Task 2 What are the challenges / implications? Task 3 From our current practice – What needs to change?