Whole School Planning

DESIGN OPTIONS STUDENT LEARNING

Requires whole school curriculum

planning

OUR EDUCATIVE PURPOSE

What is powerful to

learn?

VictorianEssential Learning

Standards

What is powerful learning and

what promotes it?

Principles ofLearning

and Teaching

LEARNER

How do we know it has been learnt?

Assessment Advice

Who do we report to?

StudentsTeachersParents

CommunitySystem

Three interwoven purposes

To equip students with capacities to:

manage themselves as individuals and in relation to others

understand the world in which they live; and

act effectively in that world.

Victorian Essential Learning Standards

Three core, interrelated strands:

Physical, Personal and Social Learning

Discipline-based Learning

Interdisciplinary Learning

Whole School Curriculum Planning

Evolution or revolution

Steady as she goes…with as little tinkering as possible.

Continue with process of curriculum change…we have already begun and incorporate changes as needed.

As a catalyst to reconceptualise the curriculum…a big bang or evolutionary change?

Your current school approach

• How would you describe the approach that is currently used at this school? Is it the same at all levels of the school?

• What are the benefits of this approach for students?

• What does the broader school community think of this approach?

• What are strengths? What are the limitations?

Options for whole school planning

• Integrated approach

• Incorporate the interdisciplinary and physical, personal and social strands of the Standards into existing discipline-based subjects

• Combine all three strands in the context of extended projects

• Other Victorian Essential Learning Standards Overview, 2005 (page 13)

Integrated approach

• What are the benefits of this approach for students?

• What would the broader school community think of this approach?

• What are the strengths? And what are the limitations?

• What are the implication issues?

Incorporate Physical, Personal and Social and Interdisciplinary strands into existing

disciplines

• What are the benefits of this approach for students?• What would the broader school community think of this approach?• What are the strengths? And what are the limitations?• What are the implication issues?

Combine all three strands as part of extended projects

• What are the benefits of this approach for students?• What would the broader school community think of this approach?• What are the strengths? And what are the limitations?• What are the implication issues?

How will we implement?

• What do we need to do?

• How will we do this?

• Who will be responsible? How will they be responsible?

• When will we do this?

• How will we know it has been achieved?

Curriculum Planning Model

Evolution or revolution

Steady as she goes…with as little tinkering as possible.

Continue with process of curriculum change…we have already begun and incorporate changes as needed.

As a catalyst to reconceptualise the curriculum…a big bang or evolutionary change?