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Storage |
Planning documents prepared by teachers can now be easily stored. |
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Currently much teacher planning produced each night is lost. |
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Access |
Teachers have quick, easy access to own planning documents. |
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The browser tree enables teachers to recall existing and creating documents through a clear, comprehensive system of classification. |
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Retrieval |
Documents can be easily retrieved. Multiple documents can be viewed simultaneously. |
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Specially developed viewing and zoom buttons provide fast access and easy viewing. |
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Printing |
Documents can be printed by the teacher in A4 or A3 format. |
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Teachers may then print in A4 and blow up to A3 on the copier. |
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SIS connection |
Curriculum Organiser may be stored with SIS. |
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SIS is essentially a database manager and the Curriculum Organiser is an organiser with its own prepared teaching plans. |
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Curriculum Manager |
Learning outcomes generated by using the Curriculum Organiser can be transferred to the ‘student progress’ section of the SIS Curriculum Manager. |
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Assessment tasks are inherent in the dynamic strategies, criteria can be identified and rubrics developed. The criteria are then transferred to the electronic marks book for assessment of individual students. The summative evidence is then transferred to the Curriculum Manager to demonstrate student progress. |
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Sharing |
Documents can be shared. |
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Common formats and electronic exchanges. ‘Personal document sets’ can be exported to a ‘Central Document Set’ and this can then be accessed by all teachers – at the click of a button. |
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Collaborative |
Teachers use common electronic formats that facilitate collaborative planning. |
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Collaborative planning can occur without ongoing face to face contact. Contact can be by email or CD. |
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Cumulative |
Documents can be stored and retained. Thus all planning may be cumulative. |
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The transference of documents to the ‘Central Document Set’ provides a central reservoir of all documents. |
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School-based curriculum development |
The simplified, electronic, formats and processes enables each school to be a mobile ‘school based curriculum branch’. |
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Teachers can use existing formats and exemplars to produce their own school based materials. Over time schools will accumulate a powerful school level resource of locally produced curriculum materials. |
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IEPS |
Documents can be easily copied and then adapted for individual students and groups. |
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IEPs can be created by teachers, teacher aides or even the students themselves. |
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Whole of school approach |
Programs can be coordinated. Learning areas can adopt shared formats and processes.
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All teachers can adopt a shared approach to planning and links between learning areas can be formalised. |
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Archived Annually |
The record of the schools curriculum documents can be archived annually.
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At the end of each year a CD containing the Central Document Set is burned and archived. This is a historic resource that can be accessed in future years. |
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Preservation |
All materials produced at the school will be preserved. |
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Currently much curriculum material is lost during transfer- all materials can now be retained electronically. |
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Continuity |
The record of the learning programs can be issued to incoming and existing teachers. |
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Hand-overs will be more efficient. Continuity of learning programs can be enhanced. |
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Tracking |
A record of the learning program for individual students can be forwarded electronically. |
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This could complement the current emphasis on tracking students enrolments. |
