“That ICPA Qld continues to lobby the Department of Education and Training and the Minister for Education to ensure there is adequate funding for a full-time position of Curriculum Resource Review within each School of Distance Education to assist with the implementation of the changes to the national curriculum in Schools of Distance Education.”
The C2C writing team which produced our classroom materials, has been disbanded; however, the materials are constantly needing to be reviewed and updated, including the supporting resources. Therefore, there needs to be a teacher employed in the specific position to continue the process of review and updating of resources. We are currently on version 9 of the curriculum, a process of review which required all classroom teachers to be involved in many adapt and adopt days, whereby these teachers were taken away from “on air” contact with their students to review and update ILM resources. We are calling for a curriculum experienced teacher to be based at each School of Distance Education, whose sole responsibility is reviewing and updating materials and liaising with teachers and home tutors. This position needs to be in addition to the current allotment of teachers at these Schools of Distance Education, not an additional role for a current teacher to be given, or a teacher removed from their current position with no one to replace them.
