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1.1 Implementing the curriculum planning and assessment frameworks

Description

This is a continuing AGQTP activity. It will support a new cohort of teachers in planning, programming, assessing and reporting to parents using clearly defined statements of student achievement. Teachers will engage in developing teaching and learning programs using a curriculum planning framework. Through local and state networks, teachers will refine their assessment processes and moderation strategies to consistently report student achievement against the state standard.

The activity will be managed by a designated officer who will take responsibility for the activity meeting the professional needs of teachers. At this stage of the planning process it is not anticipated that there will be involvement by higher education institutions or professional associations.

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Outcomes

Through participation in an AGQTP project, teachers will:

• have strengthened the currency and depth of their learning area knowledge and understandings


• have engaged productively in collegial networks that extend and support knowledge and skills


• in their interactions with students, have an increased capacity to measure, analyse and report learning outcomes to build future learning directions.

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Design

The professional learning strategy for this activity will engage teachers in:

• implementing a comprehensive curriculum planning framework to inform the design of teaching, learning and assessment activities across the K-6 curriculum


• using student work samples to inform teacher judgements of student achievement against the standard for reporting to parents


• collaboratively engaging in moderation processes using examples of student work to inform and confirm consistent judgements about a state standard of student achievement


• integrating quality teaching principles in the curriculum planning framework


• trialling, adapting/modifying Connected Outcomes Group (COG) units across K-6.

Implementation

The implementation of the activity will be supported by a designated project officer, Curriculum K-12 officers, deployed teachers with curriculum expertise, regional consultants and school-based professional learning teams.

Delivery

Workplace learning, online learning, mentoring, action learning project, workshops/course, conference, resource development.

Timeline

By May 2007:

• confirmed participation of a new group of schools to join the activity to ensure all regions are equally represented


• continue trialling COG units and collection of student work samples and teacher developed units


• identify schools that would like to increase their participation by providing further materials or by trialling the English and Mathematics programming support materials.


• draft specification for external evaluation


• broaden networking and collegial interaction extended through participation in using online discussion


• submit progress report in May.

• QA student work samples and teacher developed units from both 2006 and 2007 school intakes


• commence trial of English and Mathematics programming support materials


• commence external evaluation


• evaluate online and face-to-face networking and professional development strategies to identify needs for 2008


• submit annual report in November.

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