Planning Processes

Curriculum Organiser is for use by individual teachers and/or by schools/groups of schools that wish to adopt a whole of school approach to curriculum planning. Whole of school planning will be greatly facilitated by use of the Central Document Set.

The Curriculum Organiser is designed to suit teachers at different stages of their career i.e. beginning teachers, experienced teachers, curriculum leaders and heads of curriculum.

There are four broad approaches to planning using the Curriculum Organiser.

1. Teacher’s Starter Kit - The Safety Net

A beginning teacher may use some of the existing planning documents in the following ways.

Programming by highlighter:

Highlight the ‘Outcomes’ that are appropriate to the unit.
Highlight and use some or all of the Dynamic Strategies provided.
Annotate any sections to include your ideas/modifications.
Allocate lesson times for sections.
After the work is completed, record by highlighting / colour coding.

2. Adapting existing documents

Commencing with Graphic Organisers

Use a Graphic Organiser provided as a basis for planning.
Modify to suit a new topic e.g. change the topic ‘Animals’ to ‘Birds’.

Using existing Teacher Planner:

Select a Teacher Planner from the Contents-tree.
Create a new version of this document – by clicking ‘Open’
Select the sections to be retained.
Delete the sections not required.
Type in your ideas.

3. Creating new Teacher Planners

Experienced teachers may like to create their own documents or include their own previously prepared planning materials in the Curriculum Organiser formats.

From the Contents-tree, select a Integrated Unit or a Learning Area Unit related to your chosen topic.
Retain the system information i.e. Outcomes.
Delete all other information.
Copy and paste information from your previously prepared planning documents into the planning format, or,
Type in your new ideas in the relevant columns.

4. Import previously prepared plans

It is not necessary to use the plans provided. Your current planning documents can be imported into the Curriculum Organiser content-tree, provided they are created in Microsoft Word. PDF documents are also importable.

In all cases, the clear, simple approaches to planning provide the means to demonstrate accountability. Planning and monitoring can be demonstrated visually.

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