Standard 1: Advance quality curriculum, teaching and learning

What this standard expects

1. 1Step 1: Make sure curriculum, teaching and assessment are culturally responsive. They should promote the cultures, languages, histories, peoples, values and communities of Barbados.
2. 2Step 2: Advance a quality curriculum that is rigorous, aligned and student-centred. Build it on evidence-based standards, content, values and skills.
3. 3Step 3: Advance quality teaching that responds to students’ different backgrounds, knowledge and experiences, and uses evidence-based teaching practices.
4. 4Step 4: Advance quality learning grounded in high expectations for all students, that engages students and uses evidence-based learning practices.
5. 5Step 5: Advance balanced assessment: diagnostic, formative and summative. It should measure progress fairly and accurately, and inform teaching.
6. 6Step 6: Integrate technology by building and maintaining training and infrastructure, and embedding it in curriculum, teaching and assessment.
7. 7Step 7: Promote curriculum, teaching and assessment that develop confident, responsible, career-ready citizens. They need 21st century knowledge, values, attitudes and skills.