Supporting the curriculum

How to support it

1. 1Step 1: Lead by example. Get directly involved in every part of putting the curriculum into practice.
2. 2Step 2: Encourage teachers to lead on, and take ownership of, the curriculum.
3. 3Step 3: Explain the curriculum to teachers, students and parents, including what students should achieve and how progress is measured.
4. 4Step 4: Organise and take part in professional development that prepares teachers to use specific teaching and assessment practices.
5. 5Step 5: Make sure teachers and students have the learning resources the curriculum needs.
6. 6Step 6: Monitor how the curriculum is being taught across the school.
7. 7Step 7: Set up a way for teachers to give feedback, and act on their suggestions.
8. 8Step 8: Create and enforce schedules that give teachers enough time to teach the full curriculum. Keep disruptions to a minimum.
9. 9Step 9: Review lesson plans regularly to check the curriculum is followed.
10. 10Step 10: Observe classes regularly and give teachers helpful feedback.

1. 1Step 1: Make sure every curriculum includes current, evidence-based practice for teaching, learning and balanced assessment.
2. 2Step 2: Support school leaders to put the curriculum into practice, through coaching, mentoring and supportive supervision.
3. 3Step 3: Help teachers and school leaders understand the curriculum’s scope, sequence and content.
4. 4Step 4: Develop policies and procedures that support curriculum implementation.
5. 5Step 5: Allocate enough funding, resources, textbooks, technology, time and equipment.
6. 6Step 6: Create and enforce annual school calendars that protect teaching time.
7. 7Step 7: Organise, fund and run the professional development teachers and leaders need. Give them chances to collaborate and network.
8. 8Step 8: Monitor, evaluate and adjust implementation using different kinds of data. Survey students about a new curriculum.
9. 9Step 9: Build curriculum into continuous school and system improvement, with a clear accountability framework.