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.
