Curriculum Report Format
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 – “.”
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.
What sort of things did the students do over the last 12months (since the last report) - to advance that vision.
What student assessment procedures are being used to find out how well the vision is being advanced?
What do the results of the student assessments show? - How well is the long term vision being advanced? - Are students succeeding?
Who are the students who are not succeeding at this time? (in general terms).
What is being done - what changes are being made - so that all students succeed.
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.