This blog contains many ideas and resources for talking about the curriculum in your school. Click on the find more link to see the full blog posts.
18/05/08 | No comments
Visit the planning for better student outcomes site to access further resources focused on goal setting. This site has review questions to help guide staff discussions around identifying your priorities for improvement.
17/05/08 | No comments
The planning for better student outcomes site has some focus questions to help schools thinking about establishing vision and values.
16/05/08 | No comments
The planning for better student outcomes site has a series of review questions to help guide discussions around devising a strategy for school improvement.
05/05/08 | No comments
When it comes to implementing change, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach has noticed that schools seem to know what needs to change and why, but they get stuck on the “how” question. How do we make this change happen?
28/02/08 | No comments
These strategies have been selected from a presentation by Mary Chamberlain at the Learning @ School Conference, February, 2008.
18/02/08 | No comments
"The programmes we design need to have sufficient in-built flexibility that students can each bring their own personal response to the learning experience in a manner that is shared and out in the open. In that way, their personal experience and perspectives become a resource for the learning of all, and diversity is valued rather than suppressed or ignored." Graham Foster, teacher
Try this strategy, suggested by Rachel Bolstad:
14/02/08 | No comments
Secondary Futures provides a toolbox of resources for thinking about the new curriculum. The toolbox comprises trend cards, scenarios, wildcards and storycards. There is also a virtual tutorial to show you how they can be used. This site states it will help people "work out what their preferences for education in the future might be.
12/02/08 | No comments
It is clear that the New Zealand Curriculum is stimulating both hope and excitement as well a sense of challenge and concern. How can we navigate past and through the challenges and enable the spirit of the curriculum to live?
