Capacity Building for Curriculum Leaders

Principal / Curriculum Leader Functions

 Principals or Curriculum Leaders will be able to do the following:

·   Establish local ‘School Curriculum Centres’ for coordination of learning programs across the school.

·   Facilitate sharing across the school. Establish collaborative planning groups. 

·   Meet accountability requirements.

·   Manage the assessment – recording – reporting process more efficiently

·   Undertake NAPLAN analysis and action plans. Improve student outcomes and school performance.

Establish a School Curriculum Centre

Principals can immediately utilise the following functions of the ‘School Curriculum Centre’.

School Planning Document Display 

·   The entire set of school curriculum planning documents can be publicly available to all teachers.

·   Organisation of all documents into colour coded, easily accessible folders.

·   Coordination through shared understanding, and efficient dissemination. Immediate access to updates.

·   Existing school policy documents and plans are imported into school created folders. All in one location.

Coordinated Sharing across the school.

Principals can promote sharing by encouraging teachers to:

·   place documents for the ‘public folder’ to be accessible by all colleagues

·   establish specific groups that can collaborate.

·   quality control can be maintained, through a ‘holding bay’ function.

Accountability Processes

Establish an easy process of meeting accountability requirements.

·   Provide a simple ‘drag and drop’ function that will save teacher time and promote cooperation.

·   School records can then be easily maintained and archived.

Assessment processes

·   Again teachers can easily ‘drag and drop’ the agreed assessment records for each term.  

·   Records may be entered for school reports – as a clerical task. This process is to be automated in 2009.

Continuity, Cumulative development, Customisation and Value Adding

·     Planning can be a cumulative process. All teachers over time can be shared with all other teachers.

·     Continuity of planning documents is assured and so they can be improved each year.

·     The ‘School Curriculum Centre’ can be customised over the years to suit the local school / community context.

Security, saving, back-ups, Archiving

·   Documents are saved on the Curriculum Organiser server, and automatic back-up function is provided.

·   All personal documents are saved on the web-server, and can be saved on PCs and school shared drive. 

·  The ‘School Curriculum Centre’ can be archived each term. The permanent record is the foundation for continuous improvement

NAPLAN Analysis and Action

NAPLAN results can be transferred to a ‘School NAPLAN folder’.

·   Automated analysis enables the school to order the areas of worst to best performance

·   Hyperlinks are provided to planning processes to enable schools to immediately address the areas of concern.