我國自民國103學年度啟動十二年國民基本教育，十二年國民基本教育課程體系發展指引首要以建構中小學課程核心架構，強化國民中小學課程與高級中等教育課程間的垂直連貫與橫向統整，並做好課程支持系統。本課程體系發展指引適用對象為課程綱要研發委員，以「核心素養」為主軸提供未來十二年國民基本教育課程改革之方向指引。 　　

　　本課程體系發展指引主要呼應十二年國民基本教育理念，內容說明核心素養如何指引、轉化進入課程整體架構、學習領域/科目規劃課程內涵與如何在十二年國民基本教育中實踐，以達成培養各面向均衡發展終身學習者的理念。

　　As Taiwan Government will initiate 12-year national basic education in the academic year of 2014, this curriculum development guideline constructs a core structure for elementary, junior and secondary high school curriculum. The aims are to strengthen the vertical coherence among each year of the 12-year national basic education, integrate different subjects or learning areas, and build a curriculum support system. The primary scheme of this guideline is based on cultivating key competencies for the 12-year national basic education curriculum reform. To respond to the concept of the 12-year national basic education and achieve the ideas of cultivation for life-long learners with balanced development, this guideline first explains how key competencies could guide and integrate into curriculum structures, the curriculum planning of learning areas or subjects and curriculum contents; then describes how it could be implemented in the 12-year national basic education.