How can schools manage the change that may be required?
The introduction of the Essential Learning Standards will mean change for all schools. The nature and extent of the change will, however, be different in each school. Feedback from a series of seminars with principals and curriculum leaders held in November-December 2004 and during the validation process in 2005 voiced strong support for the new approach. Teachers frequently observe that schools are already incorporating much of the structure into existing programs, and that curriculum policy for Victorian schools has finally caught up with the best of what is occurring in our schools.The main question teachers raise is whether existing structures can continue and, in particular, whether school and subject organisation can still be organised around the KLAs. Schools can use the Essential Learning Standards and keep a KLA structure with existing local subject offerings. The main challenge in these circumstances is to ensure that the content, pedagogy and learning tasks are in place for
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