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Phase 5: Evaluation and review
Evaluating the implementation of the whole school curriculum plan
Evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of your whole school curriculum plan using the 10 Characteristics of effective whole school
curriculum planning
Characteristics of effective whole
school curriculum planning
Effective whole school curriculum
planning:
How effectively have we implemented our whole school curriculum plan?
How effectively was this characteristic
displayed? Use a rating procedure to help
identify areas of strength and weakness. What
is the evidence?
What actions are required for future planning and
implementation?
1. places the learner at the centre of
curriculum planning through having
the students’ diverse needs,
backgrounds, perspectives, interests,
achievements and ways of learning
inform curriculum design
2. is a collaborative process where the
school’s goals, targets, challenges and
opportunities from the School Strategic
Plan and Annual Implementation Plan
are looked at in their entirety
3. reflects shared values, beliefs and
understandings about the knowledge,
skills and behaviours students are to
learn and how this can be achieved
4. provides connectedness between
the strands, domains and dimensions
of the Victorian Essential Learning
Standards across the levels to ensure
coherence, balance and continuity
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5. clearly links standards, pedagogy,
assessment and reporting practices
6. encourages student learning at a
deeper, transferable and enduring
level through a co-ordinated approach
to learning and teaching across
different year levels,
subjects/programs
7. reduces the level of disparity in
student achievement between classes
and within classes
8. involves selection of the most
appropriate programs, organisation,
structures and resourcing to best
support students to achieve the
standards in the Victorian Essential
Learning Standards and Post
Compulsory Education and Training
9. encourages all staff to build
knowledge and expertise together as
they share responsibility for improving
student learning outcomes
10. establishes a procedure for
monitoring and evaluating the planning
process.
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