United Kingdom school curriculum reform blueprint _pplong

April 30, 2009, the United Kingdom before the education standards agency Governor of Jim �� Ross Jazz at the primary school curriculum is independent assessment: summary report publishing, a new round of England primary school curriculum blueprint for publicly available. Report to United Kingdom primary education 21st century times proposes a package of reform proposals, its course the substance including the promotion of lifelong learning, reduce the prescriptive, to schools and teachers more flexibility, and so on. United Kingdom's new curriculum in primary schools will be held in September 2011, is seeking the views of the stage. Six learning area new primary curriculum is one of the most significant change is that the original 11 statutory discipline becomes "six major fields of study." Report of the six fields of study in elementary school: is �� English, communication and language (foreign language) �� mathematics �� art �� history, geography and social �� physical development, health and happiness �� science and technology of six learning areas will continue to consolidate as English, mathematics, science, history, geography, and other such traditional disciplines, but will include more about information technology, personal development and health, well-being, and learning and life skills. Children will learn information and reliable evidence to support the view that science and technology learning, more emphasis on skills and assessment. Children also will explore the history of the important contribution made by scientists. Teachers in interdisciplinary teaching activities will have more space, more opportunities for students on interactive and practicality strong courses. Four core courses in the six major fields of study, the core is listening, speaking, reading, writing, arithmetic, information technology and personal development. In the first year of the child should be using Google, 11 years old, they should learn the publishing page and podcasts (podcasts). Jim �� Ross Jazz made and the Government to adopt the main recommendations include: ��, reading, writing and listening, arithmetic, information technology and personal development should become the new primary curriculum four core courses. �� To six learning area organizations primary school curriculum, so that the children benefit from high quality teaching and interdisciplinary inquiry. �� Primary schools should teach 1 ~ 2 foreign languages, language can be selected by the school, teaching focused on third learning stage. �� Provide teachers with more support to help them improve the teaching of information technology. �� Greater focus on oral communication, and give full play to the performing arts and Visual Arts, particularly the role-play and drama. �� Research through development of projects for 1967-smoother finish students from primary to secondary school transition. �� For parents to provide a curriculum guide, allowing them to better understand what children learn in school. �� For teachers on how to carry out the "play" guidance, middle school and let them teach parents. �� In 2010 starts a new course of training. �� Through the activity "play the secondary school curriculum," help children from preschool to elementary school education in transition, especially those of children born in the summer. �� Should give pre-school education teachers train students initially writing skills training. Main characteristics United Kingdom new primary curriculum has the following main features: �� recognized disciplines and their representatives of core knowledge, skills and understanding of the importance of continued. Should teach all children, especially in the segments and high school students of core knowledge and skills. Valuable and challenging interdisciplinary study will supplement the by field of education, they can provide children with the skills to use subject knowledge and understanding of a large number of opportunities. �� Greater focus on advanced courses. The revised primary school curriculum will greatly strengthen preschool, primary and secondary school education. In the course of the draft, statutory teaching content is divided into three stages, to the school so that the course content is consistent with the children's development. �� Further attention to ensuring that children in 7-year-old is firmly grasp the future learning required reading, writing and arithmetic skills of listening and speaking. �� Strengthen information technology teaching children in primary school leavers to become information technology independent, confident consumers. If you use appropriate information technology can greatly foster children in today and the future of learning and study skills, including the "e-safety" basic common sense. Each learning area has clear information technology requirements, it will directly contribute to the learning basics, key skills and understanding. �� In a more consolidated and simplified framework, greater emphasis on the personal development of children. Each child's well-being, the Foundation is to support their learning and development of a comprehensive set of personal skills and literacy. The report proposes a new framework to let students acquire such as nutrition, food preparation, healthy living, basic knowledge of these essential skills training. �� In pre-school and first, second and third studies between established closer ties. In elementary, courses with a broad "six major fields of study corresponds to" activity instruction, "playing high school" with more opportunities for children from pre-school to secondary school transition. In elementary school and high segment, the course content will be increasingly organized in accordance with the discipline to help students to more easily transition to the third school stage. �� 7-11 year old children to provide fresh opportunities for learning a foreign language. In the second study, the children should have ample opportunity to appropriate progress and depth of learning 1 door and more foreign languages. Foreign language teaching should recognize language opportunities and the importance of linguistic environment.