Curriculum Planning Guidelines – About the Guidelines and Planning Model

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The Curriculum Planning Guidelines provide a curriculum planning model that supports a whole school approach to curriculum planning. It identifies five phases through a continuous cycle of analysis, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. These phases can each be applied at the whole school level, program and student groupings level and the individual student level.

Phase 1: Understanding the context

This phase involves an audit of the current curriculum provision and includes an analysis of all relevant information to build up an understanding of the learner profile. This sets the context for future curriculum planning that will best support student learning.

Phase 2: Planning and resourcing

This phase involves interpreting the Victorian Essential Learning Standards and the post-compulsory frameworks to create a curriculum plan that has a clear focus on what is to be learnt, how learning will occur and how it will be assessed. Consideration is given to organisational structures and resourcing that account for student diversity.

Phase 3: Implementation

This phase involves the progressive implementation of the curriculum plan.

Phase 4: Continuous monitoring

This phase involves monitoring of student learning on a continual basis as the curriculum plan is being implemented.

Phase 5: Evaluation and review

This phase involves the evaluation of the curriculum plan and resulting student outcomes at key points in time.