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Curriculum Planning Guidelines – Phase 4: Continuous Monitoring

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Whole school

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

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Monitoring implementation of student learning initiatives

Student Learning Professional Learning Package overview (Word - 70Kb)
Download this document to monitor the implementation of professional learning, and the Department of Education student learning initiatives.

The Student Learning Professional Learning Package overview document can be used to create a pathway through the online professional learning resources to best meet the needs of your school.

The chart can be used as a monitoring tool to identify what aspects of the online resources have been undertaken and the effectiveness of professional learning which has taken place.

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How to use the Student Learning Professional Learning Package overview

  1. Save a copy of the overview document and either print a hard copy or use your saved copy online.
  2. Highlight on the chart which aspects of the online professional learning resources have been undertaken including:
    • the level - whole school or professional learning team level
    • the time of year and duration
    • any actions taken and those still required to happen.
  3. Annotate on the chart the effectiveness of the online resources in improving learning and teaching practice:
    • What data sources will be used?
    • What is the data showing?
    • What aspects do we need to further develop?
    • What new aspects do we need to focus on?
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Leading schools in a data-rich world

Download the full speech: Leading schools in a data-rich world by Lorna Earl (PDF - 67Kb)

In 2001, Associate Professor Lorna Earl gave the keynote address at the 2001 ASPA National Conference ‘Public Education: Right, Responsibility’,

In her keynote, entitled Leading schools in a data-rich world, Associate Professor Earl said: ‘Wisdom will come from pushing ourselves beyond our comfort zone’.

Following are other extracts from the keynote:

Principals and teachers just need to learn how to use data to their advantage. If you know how to use it and what to look for, you can paint your own picture and pass it onto your audience.

Using data is not a mechanistic process. It is more observation skills, imagination, visioning, deciding what to do and how to do it. In other words, it is more like what an artist does.

This paper can be used to create a discussion about the importance of data for planning and monitoring.