Curriculum Report Format

Notes

• These (below) are suggested headings - take out these notes and the notes below the headings.

• These are “business as usual” reports to assure the board that we are covering all required curriculum areas. Therefore, the report should be brief.

• The board’s focus is on ends rather than means - on the big picture rather than the detail - on creating the future rather than on the past. (i.e. focus the report on what the students are achieving not on what the teachers or students are doing)

• The Board Operations Policy delegates responsibility for Curriculum Delivery to the principal, therefore this is the principal’s report to the board.

Adapted from: Moffat, L., & Hines, E. (2003), The governance manual: school charter and policy framework. Wellington: NZSTA

Date

Curriculum Report – “.”

Focus

• What is the vision for this curriculum area and what is the particular focus at this school at this time?

• Should relate to the school vision and strategic directions.

Programme

• What sort of things did the students do over the last 12months (since the last report) - to advance that vision.

Assessment Procedures

• What student assessment procedures are being used to find out how well the vision is being advanced?

Trend Analysis

• What do the results of the student assessments show? - How well is the long term vision being advanced? - Are students succeeding?

Students and Groups of Students at risk

• Who are the students who are not succeeding at this time? (in general terms).

Teaching and learning strategies to address the above

• What is being done - what changes are being made - so that all students succeed.

Looking Ahead

• Planned changes in the vision and the particular focus for this curriculum area at this school at this time in light of student achievement data and/or curriculum changes and the school’s vision and strategic directions.