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Junior Cycle Development…so far
• Innovation and Identity discussion paper
• Consultation findings on www.ncca.ie
• Strong evidence base for change
• Commitment to junior cycle reform in programme
for government and by the Minister
• NCCA developing a new Framework for Junior Cycle2
Rationale for junior cycle development
Minister’s request and input to Council• Create the space for deeper learning and innovation in
schools• The forms of assessment for junior cycle and the scaling
back of the Junior Certificate• The role of key skills in junior cycle• Continuity with primary education
ESRI research on the experience of junior cycleBuild on previous review and look to the future
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How the World’s Most Improved School Systems Keep Getting Better
‘…improving systems generally spend more of their activity on improving how instruction is delivered than on changing the content of what is delivered.’
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How the World’s Most Improved School Systems Keep Getting Better
Rather, these systems achieve improvement by the center increasing
the responsibilities and flexibilities of schools and teachers to shape
instructional practice – one-third of the systems in the ‘good to great’
journey and just less than two-thirds of the systems in the ‘great to
excellent’ journey decentralize pedagogical rights to the middle layer
(e.g. districts) or schools.
McKinsey and Company
November 2010
http://www.mckinsey.com/ 5
A new Framework for Junior Cycle
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• A new way for students to encounter junior cycle
• All aspects at the service of learning and teaching
• Combination of strong framework for all with local
flexibility
• Junior Cycle’s own identity - the engaged learner
and future citizen
A new Framework for Junior Cycle?
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•Students making a greater connection with learning
•Improving the quality of learning that takes place
•Ensuring literacy, numeracy and key skills are embedded in the
learning
The focus is on...
A new Framework for Junior Cycle?
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•What a student will learn described in 35 statements of
essential learning across eight areas of learning
•The skills of literacy and numeracy and other key skills
embedded in areas of learning and the curriculum
Learning
• Subjects and short courses continue to play an important role
• Schools enabled to develop some courses of their own
• Curriculum specifications that are smaller and less detailed
than at present
Curriculum
A new Framework for Junior Cycle?
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CSPE Geography History Jewish Studies Religious Education
Mathematics Science Technical Graphics Technology Materials Technology (Wood) Metalwork
SUBJECTS
• Assessment playing a major part in everyday learning over the
three years of junior cycle
• Students being more responsible for gathering and presenting
evidence of their learning
• Teachers judging, giving feedback, and reporting on that
evidence
Assessment
A new Framework for Junior Cycle?
• Two new qualifications
• Smaller qualifications with fewer curriculum components,
giving schools more space and time to spend on their junior
cycle programme, on literacy, numeracy and key skills
Qualifications
A new Framework for Junior Cycle?
Leading and supporting junior cycle change
• All schools heading in the same direction, to the same destination
• All schools move at the same time…but not necessarily at the same pace
• Clear plan and appropriate timeframe• Introducing changes on a phased basis• Developmental approach taken to working with
teachers and schools• Identify the supports and resources needed
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What really matters?
An entitlement curriculum which while not giving an inch on standards in literacy and numeracy
is broad, balanced and rich;
which engages, excites and empowers;
which attends to children’s present as well as their future needs;
which addresses the condition of society and the wider world;
and is taught to the highest possible standard.
Robin Alexander, Cambridge Primary Review19