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Literacy guidance for teachers published |
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Wednesday, 20 February 2008 |
Effort will be made to integrate literacy skills into the Curriculum for Excellence to help pupils better prepare for the workplace, it was announced today.
This follows concerns that young people who are leaving school are not
leaving with the core literacy skills that most employers not only
desire but require.
New guidelines will also show pupils how to consider the effects of
their actions online and when it is or isn't appropriate to use text
speak.
Maureen Watt, Minister for Schools and Skills, said: "We teach children
how to understand, analyse and communicate using words on paper and
rightly so. We're not going to stop that - indeed we want people to be
properly equipped with better literacy skills. At the same time, of
course, we get our news and information more from TV and the internet
than from the newspaper. We communicate through email and text
messaging and social networking more than writing letters.
"Young people are immersed in technology, and the tools that help them
create websites, blogs, videos and podcasts also allow them to be
authors and publishers. They can reach a worldwide audience, so we have
to teach them to do this well. We would be failing them if we just
stand by and ignore these developments."
Teachers are being issued with draft literacy outcomes that will
indicate how they can incorporate core literacy skills into their
subjects e.g. spelling in music.
Watt said "The draft outcomes for Scotland's new curriculum are
intended to help teachers make teaching more relevant, exciting and
engaging. We are keen to receive feedback on the outcomes from
professionals who will be working towards this transformation across
Scottish education. It is vitally important that teachers read and
react to these draft outcomes and think about how they will be able to
use this guidance to make their teaching as good as it can be."
The draft outcomes for how Gaelic should be incorporated into the Curriculum for Excellence were also published today.
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