School Coordination Professional Learning Overview

Goals

• Improve student achievement through supporting teacher planning, teaching and learning
• School curriculum coordination and accountability

Professional learning program

·   Establish structures and processes for school coordination.

·   Develop personal competencies in the use of the applications.

·   Revise roles and areas of responsibility.

Understanding of Technology for establishment of the School Curriculum Centre

·   Power point presentation of ‘Control Panel’ and the related processes.

·   Practical use and application of the processes

Curriculum coordination: using the school curriculum centre

Examine the functions that are available to school leaders and discuss how they may be implemented:

·     Collection and storage: centralised resource of all planning documents prepared by teachers. 

·     Policy dissemination: School policy documents disseminated efficiently.

·     Organisation: Agreed systematic structures. Easy access. Continuity. Value adding, Quality control.

·     Collaborative groups and sharing of planning documents.

Curriculum Leaders use of ICT

·   Professional Efficiency: Simplify planning. Systematic flow of documents. Coherence – jigsaw.

·   Effective Teaching:  ICT for teaching and learning.  Access to on-line resources/lessons/records.

·   Self-sustaining: Confidence, competence, flexibility, independent capacity, collaboration.

Review the Roles of Curriculum Leaders and areas of responsibility

·     System:    ensuring policy is adopted and requirements are met

·     School:      leadership and coordination of the school’s learning program.

·     Teachers: to support teachers in the teaching / learning process.

·     Students:  to provide stage appropriate, developmental, engaging learning experiences

Teacher Planning Processes

·     Teaching Practice – Pedagogy:   Assist teachers to link ‘Curriculum’ and ‘Pedagogy’

·     Supervision of the learning program: track outcomes and support learning programs

·     Monitoring student progress:  data gathering / analysis to monitor student progress. NAPLAN

·     Professional Development:  link growth to personal needs and school priorities. ICT use.

·     Cooperation and collaboration: promote and coordinate sharing of curriculum planning

Leading Assessment Evaluation and Reporting

Processes enable teachers to assess student progress and to evaluate learning programs.

Assessment tasks: valid, appropriate criteria. 

·     Formative (ongoing assessment).

·     Summative (end of learning program)

·     Evidence gathering, consistent, on balance judgements. 

·     Checklists and rubrics – preparation / use.