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Purpose

Curriculum Organiser is designed to organise curriculum for both the individual teacher and the whole of school.
  • All planning elements are together in one location
  • System requirements are immediately available e.g. outcomes, assessment guidelines
  • Prepared documents are provided as examples
  • Previous planning documents can be imported
  • The school can determine the organisational structure and create folders and a customised contents tree
  • Teacher planning can be shared - within schools and between schools
  • Library resources relevant to current plans can be imported
  • Planning support from other educational agencies can be included e.g. Australian Bureau of Statistics
  • School policy documents can be connected e.g. School Improvement Plan connected to curriculum plan.'
  • State test results can be imported for analysis
  • Literacy and numeracy plans can address issues identified in the test results
  • Assessment is linked to planning - criteria for planning assist in determining criteria for assessment
  • Recording is linked to planning and assessment
 
Structure
 
There are four layers of planning documents:
  1. System layer:  Outcomes, Essential Learnings and guidelines.    
  2. School layer:   Scope and Sequence charts. Unit by class by term by year plan
  3. Teacher layer:  Integrated Units, Learning area units, Graphic Organisers, Assessment tasks
  4. Student layer:  Negotiated learning programs are adapted
Each layer provides documents from different parts of the ‘learning organisation’. eg system provides outcomes.
Each layer answers some key questions for teacher planning.
 
Different ‘lenses’ are used at each layer by different people with different responsibilities eg the teacher uses the ‘teacher lens’ and views all the documents with the purpose of translating the intentions into classroom practice.  
 
 
System Layer
 
The system layer includes the requirements of the relevant Curriculum authority and Department of Education.
The ‘Outcome’ are the purpose of education and provide the rationale for teaching and learning.  In Quensland the Outcomes have been refined and replaced by Essential Learnings.
 
The outcomes overviews are provided in a convenient format to assist teachers in the following:
  • Planning:             selecting outcomes that could be achieved
  • Monitoring:           identifying and tracking outcomes attained
  • Communication:    inform principals, parents and students of these decisions.
  • Accountability:      demonstrate that system requirements and outcomes are addressed.
                                                                                        ‘Why we teach’ and ‘For whom’
 
School Layer
 
The school (principal) is responsible for establishing the learning program.
The key tool is the Scope and Sequence Chart as it determines what is to be taught when.
 
Scope and sequence charts are provided for the following purposes:
  • Coordinate learning programs across the school over the years of schooling.
  • Progressive developmental programs – recognising student stages of learning.
  • Avoid duplication and gaps
  • Provide comprehensive, coherent, integrated programs.
                                                                                        ‘What we teach’ and ‘When’
 
Teacher Layer
 
The teacher is responsible for translating the outcomes into classroom practice.
The following documents are brought together: 
  • Outcomes/Essential Learnings 
  • Core content. Knowledge/skills/ values
  • Processes: Dynamic strategies / student learning activities
  • Assessment: criteria, standards.
                                                                    ‘How’, ‘With what’, ‘So what’ and ‘How well’
 
 
Student Layer
 
It is the student that processes the learning -  therefore students are to be involved in the planning, organisation,  application, evaluation of the learning process.  All documents can be modified according to student responses:    
  • Negotiated curriculum - goals, outcomes
  • Learning experiences can be adapted, modified, created
  • Individual Education Plans can be developed
  • Gifted and talented, Education Support, Aboriginal education programs
Students can thus engage in relevant, interesting, appropriate, meaningful learning programs.
                                                                                                                      
                                                                                        ‘For whom’ and ‘So what’ 
 
 
 
 
 
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