Garry’s Rambles

I am being followed at the VITTA School Leaders and ICT Managers conference by Derek Wenmouth who is well known and knowledgeable in learning and ICTs. In my presentation I talked about leaders needing to have courage to innovate. That the curriculum and assessment needs to measure what we value in learning….and Derek spoke of the NZ Curriculum that was developed collaboratively with key stakeholders online. In New Zealand, for sometime schools have made decisions about most things at the school level. The Curriculum Framework allowed schools to design the way in which the curriculum and assessment would be delivered at the local level. He says this devolved level of decision making, whilst good has resulted in fragmentation of effort and re-invention of the wheel.