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Criteria for a School Based Curriculum Centre
 
Education Research Solutions identified the following criteria for a school based curriculum centre.
 
Outcomes focussed
Structures and processes are to reflect and promote an outcomes approach.
 
Planning structures, processes and examples adopt an outcomes approach.
 
 
Comprehensive
Provision of planned learning programs across all learning areas for all phases of development.
 
Exemplar planning documents are provided for Pre-school, Primary, Secondary, Education Support.
 
 
Connected
All layers of curriculum documents are to be interconnected.
 
The system layer ‘Curriculum Framework’ pervades all documents and the links are traceable.
 
 
Flexible
Accommodate different teachers personal styles of thinking/planning.
 
Individual differences: Different teachers plan differently.  
Each teacher can make personal decisions about how the documents and software may be used.
 
 
Adaptable
Provide prepared documents adaptable to student needs and local school contexts.
 
All documents customisable.
 
 
Generative
Enables teachers to produce their own documents.
 
The capacity of teachers to produce their own material is enhanced.
 
 
Developmental
Process provides for ‘continual improvement’.
 
A developmental approach to curriculum is adopted.
 
 
Cumulative
All planning documents are to be retained and added to the resource base.
 
A fast, efficient and effective way of accumulating documents.
 
 
Collaborative

Teachers have the incentive and the capacity to share planning documents.

 
 
Incorporate
Teachers existing planning materials are to be incorporated.
 
Teachers prior planning is valued.
 
 
Value Adding
Demonstrate / measure the value added component in terms of the quality of the planning documents and student learning outcomes.
 
Planning documents may be compared with the previous document.
The student learning outcomes for different planned learning experiences can be compared.
 
 
Simple
Easy to use.
 
Only require low skill levels in the familiar ‘Microsoft Word’.
 
 
 
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