- The P-6 Curriculum Planning Model
provides multi-level assessment and planning resources
to align learning across prep to year six.
It is a flexible model that can be adapted
to suit diverse contexts, including small schools,
multi-age groupings, and students
on individual curriculum plans.
The model currently provides assessment and planning
resources for English, maths, science and HASS.
Units have an assessment task for each year level
from prep to year six that reflects the progression
of the curriculum across a common theme.
The model began as a collaboration
between the C2C curriculum team
and nine remote small schools.
Let's hear from the teaching principals
who trialled the model.
- A true multi-age unit that goes from prep to year six
and for those of us that have got kindy,
the kindy can often be integrated as well.
Some years. I can have eight year levels.
I'm part of the remote kindy programme
and I might only have eight children but I have
eight year levels, so I have to plan for eight year levels.
- Tying the assessments together
is an assessment alignment planner, or AAP.
The AAP identifies the aspects of the Australian curriculum
achievement standard being assessed and the aligned
content descriptions in each year level.
- I'd have to say my favourite part would be the AAP
because it just shows with extreme clarity, the progression
from prep right through to the end of the year six level,
so you can build up the structure of your lessons,
the structure of your units, whatever you're teaching
and know that you're doing it properly,
and you're covering all the content
and you're building from year-to-year.
Our students are engaged and they're excited about learning,
but there's also that very clear alignment
that shows their progression throughout,
from K right through to year six
- The model provides whole-school planning documents
including year level planning, achievement standard mapping,
and a whole school assessment schedule.
There is also a set of kindy resources
that link the Queensland Kindergarten
Learning Guideline to unit context.
So the provision of resources for our state
delivered kindy students has assisted us
once again with workload, it's made clear connections
between the kindergarten curriculum
and the Australian curriculum, where we've been able
to align what we're doing in class
with primary aged-children with a suitable
and age-appropriate programme for our kindy students.
- Early users of the P-6 Curriculum Planning Model
have said that it helps to sharpen the precision
and alignment of their curriculum planning.
- It's had, I believe a powerful impact on the kids
in terms of being able to teach across the whole school,
we've seen the use of meta-language from prep to year six,
engagement around the terms of being able
to have peer tutoring, peer collaboration.
It's really brought the whole school together.
So, I'm talking about 10 kids here,
but 10 kids across from P to six.
It's made it a whole lot easier
to have that rich conversations.
- I still put in a lot of time into the planning,
but it means that I can use a lot
of the resources across the whole year levels,
and it gives me more time to work
with the individual students, and that's the big aim.
- It's made it easier for us as teaching principals
to be able to track it, map it out,
and know exactly how they're going
with the curriculum and where to move next.
- The students are much more engaged now
because as a group we sit and we work towards the one task,
everyone's task might be tweaked to their level,
but because we're all sitting there together
we're all doing things together,
they bounce off each other, they get ideas from each other.
This has a far broader impact across the state
and we know now that not only are small schools
accessing the P-6 Curriculum Planning Model,
we've got some bigger schools too,
and they using it in their own context
to improve the learning of students in their schools.
- I'm definitely confident that I'm covering
all aspects of the Australian curriculum
because throughout that planning process,
prior to even delivering to students,
there is a very clear picture of what needs
to be covered for every year level.
- It is called a planning model because it is more
than just a set of useful resources.
It also demonstrates a model that can be applied
to other topics and learning areas.
To support teachers in this, a set of self-paced
learning modules show how to use the example resources.
It also provides templates and demonstrates
the process for creating your own units.
To have a closer look at how this planning model
could be used in your classroom, school or region,
visit the C2C website and click on
the P-6 Curriculum Planning Model button.
If you have any questions or feedback
for the C2C Curriculum team, please send us an email.