Support for Curriculum Progress Tools
Boost your confidence and ability to make judgements across the curriculum
The Curriculum Progress Tools offer much more than just providing a judgement of student progress and achievement.
The Curriculum Progress Tools are essential for educators to use. They are made up of two parts - the Learning Progressions Framework and the Progress and Consistency Tool.
The illustrations exemplify high-quality learning experiences. Teachers can then use reading and writing as cross-curricula devices to help students access the broadness of our curriculum. We have also seen the value of the Curriculum Progress Tools in:
developing teacher curriculum knowledge
acknowledging teacher knowledge as a valid form of evidence
providing a lens for reviewing teaching and learning programmes
thinking of Mathematics as more than just numeracy
making sure important but less obvious aspects of reading, writing and mathematics get taught in learning programmes
developing a good understanding of achievement and progress through the curriculum levels
providing high-quality reports and displays.
We have been part of the Curriculum Progress Tools implementation support and professional learning since 2013. Since then, we developed years of institutional knowledge about the tools. We know how to introduce them to educators so they can use the tools effectively.
These benefits have been heard in settings from primary through to secondary.
Secondary school teachers and leaders find the illustrations relevant. The reading and writing illustrations in science, social science and English contexts show subject specialists improve their subject achievement. This has become even more relevant with the introduction of literacy and numeracy as co-requisite standards for NCEA.
How to structure your professional learning
Option A: Regionally allocated PLD
Implement the Curriculum Progress Tools through regionally allocated professional learning. We have worked with many schools and kāhui ako through the assessment for learning or local curriculum design priorities.
Option B: An implementation programme
Let us design something that will work with your needs and budget. The programme includes:
Development of an implementation plan and tool set-up
An introduction to the Learning Progression Frameworks
Framework exploration
Developing efficient judgment making processes
First judgments
Review of the judgment making process and analysis of data sets and displays
Review session
Option C: A customised implementation model
Do you want something more specific for your school or kāhui ako? Get in touch with us. We can customise an approach that brings the best of what we know and meets your specific needs.
