Context: Curriculum Improvement Cycle

Integral to the new structure of a future-oriented, inclusive and equitable curriculum is to enable all children and young people to thrive in our world by developing a better understanding of themselves as confident individuals, effective contributors, responsible citizens and successful learners. Across the four contexts for learning they will be able to explore and develop their capacities, providing them with diverse opportunities to learn, grow and achieve.

Why?

Regular, structurally integrated approaches to profiling will help learners to identify the knowledge, understanding and skills gained as part of their learning experiences. Profiling enables learners to recognise and capture significant achievements throughout their learner journey. An inclusive approach to profiling not only enables learners to identify and reflect upon them, but strengthens self-awareness, confidence and the formation of future aspirations. When children and young people recognise where they are in their learning, realise success and identify next steps, their agency is strengthened.

How?

To maximise the impact of profiling, it is essential that learners are empowered to be active participants in this process whilst retaining ownership of their profile and its content. At the same time all stakeholders in education play an important role in the profiling process by contributing evidence and entering in to dialogue with learners that supports recognition of achievements across all contexts of learning and personal life. Capturing achievements and associated skills is central to profiling, and the national Learner Profile provides a platform for learners to build an evidence base for conversations about their capabilities, aspirations and future goals.

The Profiling Achievements National Co-design Group, led by Skills Development Scotland and Education Scotland, provides guidance on profiling approaches and the digital solution. A national, consistent approach brings coherence across settings and allows the Learner Profile to travel with the learner.

Related links:

• My World of Work: Empowering learners: An educator’s guide to My Profile

• Profiling Conversations

• Profiling Skills and Achievements in the Context of Career Education