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Rostrevor College's Curriculum And Accountability Framework

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Predominantly as a teacher of senior secondary students undertaking the SACE, the curriculum I am required to teach along with assessment guidelines are predetermined by the local governing authority – the SACE-Board SA. Additionally, as a teacher at Rostrevor College, I am guided and bound by the College’s Curriculum and Accountability Framework (R-12). In addition to the framework, we are also challenged to be true to who we are. As a school in the Edmund Rice tradition, we are committed to (amongst other aspirational goals) providing a ‘Liberating Education’ (see Appendix I for my educational context).

What (curriculum) and how (pedagogy) I teach is guided by the need to meet the conflicting needs and motivation of students and to some …show more content…

A curriculum that maximises the learning of all students is one that recognises and celebrates diversity and engages all students in intellectually challenging learning experiences. It provides students with clear guidelines on what they are learning and how they will be assessed. It involves a range of teaching strategies to meet different learning needs and explicit teaching to scaffold students’ learning so that they develop and consolidate the required knowledge and skills to meet the anticipated future demands of work and …show more content…

Ironically, some students prefer (or at least they suggest they do) elements of the Behaviourist model where teaching is explicit and the motivation to complete and do well is influenced by external punishments/rewards.

In conclusion, our capacity to learn what we need for the future is more important than what we know today. A genuine challenge for any learning theory is to arouse known knowledge at the point of application and for educators to explore and implement multiple ways of knowing and learning. When knowledge, however, is needed, but not known, the ability to plug into sources to meet the requirements becomes a vital skill. As knowledge continues to grow and evolve, access to what is needed is more important than what the learner currently

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