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Curriculum Planning Guidelines – Phase 2: Planning & Resourcing

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Program and student groupings – Possible models

The following links provide some models for schools to consider and if useful, to adapt to their needs.

Intel® Teach Program (http://www.intel.com)
Intel® Teach Program is a worldwide effort to help both experienced and pre-service teachers integrate technology into their teaching. This promotes students' higher-order thinking skills and enhances learning. There are two courses offered:

  • Essentials
  • Thinking with Technology.

Participating teachers receive extensive instruction and resources to promote effective technology use in the classroom.  

Communities of thinking - Dr. Yoram Harpaz (www.learningtolearn.sa.edu.au/Colleagues)
Twelve Israeli schools created communities of thinking to explore how a pedagogy based on questioning can transform teaching and learning.

New Basics – The Rich Tasks (http://education.qld.gov.au/curriculum/assessment/richtasks.html)
The Queensland model of Rich Tasks provides a rigorous intellectual focus for cross-curricular student work. It also focuses a large proportion of the school’s organisational capacity on intellectual engagement and relevant work, the two characteristics that research identifies as necessary for improved outcomes.

Teaching for Understanding (http://learnweb.harvard.edu/ALPS/tfu/info.cfm)
The work represented here is due to the collaborative thought and work of the teachers and researchers of the Teaching for Understanding Project, based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Over the course of five years, members of this group talked together, developed curricula, tried them out in a classroom, watched and talked with students, wrote case studies, and eventually solidified a framework that identifies the central aspects of planning and teaching for understanding.

Virtual Finland (http://virtual.finland.fi/Education_Research/)
This is the Virtual Finland website produced by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. On this site you can find stories of Finnish schools, including planning, implementation and approaches to education.