Canning District Education Office

District Education Services - Curriculum Services

Curriculum Improvement Program Team

The team comprises the Curriculum Improvement Manager, District Curriculum Consultants, Service Area Curriculum Consultants, (First Steps Literacy and Numeracy) and an Enterprise and Vocational Education (EVE) Coordinator.

The curriculum team also includes a Gifted and Talented District PEAC Coordinator and Home Schooling Moderators.

These officers provide advice and support to individual schools and teachers in relation to pedagogy and across district support through an extensive professional development program that focuses on helping teachers develop outcomes focused knowledge, skills and understandings.

The Curriculum team's contact details.

The Role of the Team

The Role of the Curriculum Improvement Program (CIP) Team is to:

• Provide leadership and high quality support to schools in implementing CIP2;
• Assist schools in implementing initiatives that support the CIP, including:
• First Steps Literacy Program
• First Steps Numeracy Program
• Curriculum through ICT
• 100 Schools Project
• School Information System (SIS) curriculum manager software
• Building Inclusive Schools
• Early Childhood Education (ECE)
• Enterprise and Vocational Education (EVE)
• Gifted and Talented
• Literacy
• Quality Teacher Program
• SAER
• Standards Trial
• Provide a multidisciplinary approach in collaboration with Student Services and Aboriginal Education to meet the needs of schools.

The purpose of the CIP is to improve student learning so that all students achieve the outcomes set out in the Curriculum Council's Curriculum Framework and Curriculum Framework Progress Maps (Working Version). The Curriculum Team supports schools and teachers in:

• Developing whole school processes that reflect the requirements of the Department's Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Policy and Guidelines;
• Developing learning and teaching programs that meet the needs of all students (Curriculum Improvement Website );
• Monitoring student progress and plan for improvement using the Curriculum Framework and the Outcomes and Standards Framework;
• Reporting to parents on student progress using the Outcomes and Standards Framework;
• Using data based on the Outcomes and Standards Framework for School Planning and for demonstrating accountability.

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