1.1 Implementing the curriculum planning and assessment frameworks
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Description
This is a continuing Australian Government Quality Teacher Programme activity. It supports cohorts of teachers in planning, programming, assessing and reporting to parents using clearly defined statements of student achievement. Teachers will develop 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.
Contacts
| Vicki Lowery email: vicki.lowery@det.nsw.edu.au Ph 9886 7747 Fax 9886 7796 Sector: DET |
Leonie Brown email: leonie.brown@det.nsw.edu.au Ph 9886 7777 Fax 9886 7796 Sector: DET |
Outcomes
Through participation in this project, teachers will have strengthened the currency and depth of their learning area knowledge and understandings.
Through participation in this project, teachers will in their interactions with students, have an increased capacity to measure, analyse and report learning outcomes to build future learning directions.
Access
Targeted NSW Department of Education and Training schools
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.
School teams and clusters of schools working in collegial networks will be involved in school-based projects. Teams will be supported with flexible learning processes that include components such as self-paced and facilitated online learning, face-to-face workshops, video and teleconferences, online mentors, and discussion groups. Local and state workshops and conferences will provide knowledge-building and skill sharing opportunities and enable participants to have their work publicly celebrated and critiqued.
Feedback from participants has guided the production of materials and plans for further networking and support.
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 June 2008:
- Confirmation of forty new project schools implementing the curriculum planning framework and networking in regional clusters guided by a mentor school
- Schools continuing from 2007 collect student work samples li>
- Eleven regional workshops completed. These workshops will support other interested schools as well as new project schools
- Broadening of networking and collegial interaction through participation in online conferencing
- Continued editing and publishing of project materials
- External evaluation commenced
- Progress report submitted in June
By December 2008:
- Continued trial implementation
- Continued collection of work samples
- Follow up visits/workshops on a needs basis
- Online conferencing continued
- Continued editing and publishing of project materials
- External evaluation continued
- Annual report submitted in December
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