School Curriculum Organiser

Components

There are five components of the ‘School Curriculum Organiser’:

·   ‘School Curriculum Centre – Public Folders’:  contain all planning documents accessible by all teachers.

·   School shared folder:  A ‘Holding Bay’, within which teachers can place documents for sharing.                                             
 It is a ‘quality control folder’ so that curriculum leaders can edit, and then place in the appropriate location.

·   Collaborative group sharing folders: Specific groups can be created. Members may share documents. e.g. Literacy, or Year 3 teachers.                                    

·   Accountability folder: Teachers place ‘School Record documents’ used for school accountability e.g. overview of planned units of work. The process is a very simple ‘right click and check’.

·    Assessment folder: Teachers ‘drag and drop’ the agreed assessment records for each term. Records may be entered for school reports – as a clerical task. 

Features

The School Curriculum Organiser enables to principal to coordinate the school learning program, meet accountability requirements and plan for continuous improvement, using evidence based data e.g. NAPLAN.

·     Existing school plans: All current school plans can be imported into the special school folders (Red Nodes) within chosen folders created by the school.

·     Policy dissemination: School policy documents are accessible to all teachers and disseminated efficiently.

·     Organisation: Established organisational structure provides for efficient storage and fast access

·     Collection and storage: All planning documents are stored and accessible in one location.

·     Immediate updates: New documents e.g. National Curriculum are immediately available to all.

·     Connections:  Facilitate links to resources: First Steps, Primary connections, Learning Federation Objects

·     Shared understanding: All teachers are viewing the same ‘School Curriculum Centre’.

·     Quality control: Documents submitted by teachers are placed in the ‘Holding Bay’ and are edited by a curriculum leader prior to including in the CDS. This ensures quality control.

·     Cumulative development: Planning is a cumulative process as documents produced by all teachers over time can be shared with all other teachers. ‘Do not re-invent the wheel’.

·     Value adding: Planning documents can be improved each year.

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

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

·     Sharing:  Teachers can share documents in seconds, by ‘drag and drop’ to the shared folder.

·     Group sharing:  groups can be created for collaboration between a common group e.g. Year 3 teachers.

·     District or State-wide Curriculum Access:  The State may be regarded as a very large ‘School’ and thus the public folder will be accessible to all teachers.

·     Saving: All personal documents are saved on the web-server.  Schools may also choose to save the documents on their personal computers and on a school shared drive.  

·     Back-up:  ‘Backing-up’ is automated. Teachers merely click the ‘back-up button’ and save on the server. The folder can then be saved on the school server.