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Considering your Curriculum

Tánaiste 2016

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To consider curriculum planning under the following headings:

•Rationale for your curriculum

•Factors that influence curriculum in your school

•Who is involved in deciding your curriculum?

Aims

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.ieRationale for your Curriculum

RationaleMoral purpose

Opportunity to articulate

values –priorities

Enhanced T & L

Streaming/ mixed ability

Change driver

New DP –continue

with status quo

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.ieFactors that Influence your

Curriculum

Factors

External factors –

STEM CAO pts

Curriculum review – how,

why

Student needs

Allocation

Dates LofA/ Jobshare, etc

Local arrangements –link with other schools, etc

Taster programme/

Carousel

DES requirements

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Student Needs: what might be required?

Resources:

•Team Teaching required?

•SEN requirements?

•Other requirements?

Curriculum

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•The number of teachers required on

each line

•Curricular Concessions – in progress

•SEN Allocation – in progress

Allocations

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•Leave of Absence/Job share

applications

•Is your school under/over quota

•Job share policy?

•Student needs are paramount e.g.

difficulty in employing teachers in

particular subject areas

Dates

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•Do you share teaching resources with

another school?

•Advantages?

•Disadvantages?

Local Arrangements

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•1st Years sample the option/choice

subjects for a certain number of weeks

and then they choose.

•1st Years sample all the option/choice

subjects for the full year and then

choose their subjects towards the end of

the year for the following year.

Taster Programme/Carousel

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Students – voice/options

Teachers – individual/dept. review/invitation

What’s already there – continuity/consistency

Inspectorate

Parent voice

Legal implications/requirements

SEN

Governance

Personnel involved in the process

Who is Involved?

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.ieWhat does your curriculum say

about your school?