MECI - Monitoring and Evaluating Curriculum Implementation What’s happening to NZC nationally and what is changing as a result?

A national picture (2008 – 2009) So… nationally, there were winners and losers. What does it look like in your school? What evidence do you have to show this? Skite material Getting there Not happening

MECI Recommendations focus on deepening educators’ understandings about curriculum elements and their relationship to each other strengthen the quality of support for curriculum implementation

MECI Recommendations create conditions that enable and promote effective curriculum implementation promote sustained inquiry into curriculum implementation.

Read the recommendations from the MECI report. Use this table to scaffold your thinking about the key ideas and implications for you as a principal. Record some possible actions you could use to implement these recommendations

Teaching as Inquiry What does this really look like?

What do they already know? What sources of evidence have I used? What does he/she need to learn and do? How will I build on what they know? What are your student’s key learning needs?

What are your own learning needs? How have I contributed to the student’s outcomes? What do I already know that can be used to promote valued outcomes? What do I need to learn to do to promote valued student outcomes? What sources of evidence / knowledge can I utilize?

Must be time for coffee by now … surely