August+2009+M

=August 2009 Monthly Individual School Report =  What has been done? Attended a NZC network AToL community meeting at Massey on 26th August Taihape Curriculum Cluster meeting to look at wikis

During both of these we discussed what a good school based curriculum needs to include/ look like/ be. Discussed including overall learning intentions as directions for learning. Also discussed formative assessment and how it aligns with NZC and how this might look in our school based curriculum and what assessment tools we use. Finally we discussed several planning processes and tryed to refine these to one overall one that will work for everything. Next Step - consultation with community about assessment and reporting, trial and review planning process, and work on overall learning intentions for each subject area and competency

How good was it, what has changed? Wiki - excellent as we now all have a way to keep each other posted with developments. NZC Network - Fantastic and mind boggling. The 2 of us who attended will now meet to make sense of this and then use it to run staff meetings to complete next step stuff.

Is anyone better off? How do you know? My DP and I are - hopefully the others soon will be. We now feel like we have new and clearer direction about where we are going with the development of our school based curriculum document.