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Curriculum Liberator was developed between Woodward IT and North Lakes
State College to enable their philosophy of life long learning
coupled with a transition to a new series of syllabuses in Queensland.
The application encompasses many things, including: designing units
of work known as "Discovery Journeys", recording demonstrations
against outcomes, recording level attainment, generating report cards
as well as producing a suite of reports.
Curriculum Liberator has been designed to be used in a distributed
environment, so that each teacher can record/update details about
students from their own classroom. Rather than marking details for
report cards at the end of a Discovery Journey, teachers can mark
or record demonstrations once criteria have been addressed.
The education philosophy used at North Lakes State College is unique
and is not covered on these pages. Instead, read on to see some of
the components of Curriculum Liberator that have been developed to
cater for this strategy that may appear common to you. Click on any
of the smaller screen shots to see them enlarged.
For more information on Curriculum Liberator, continue to
Curriculum Liberator Page 2
Also see Liberator MS, a
version of Curriculum Liberator for Middle School.
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Tailored Interface
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Curriculum Liberator has been designed for busy teachers to
streamline the amount of effort required for planning and marking.
Each of the key areas of the application can be loaded from a
single mouse click on a series of recognisable icons.
As for simplicity, the planning process has been broken into a
series of smaller components so that teachers do not have to suffer
from "GUI envy" as there is an incredible amount of information
that goes into a Discovery Journey.
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Outcomes Browser
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One of the dialogs used in Curriculum Liberator, is the Outcomes
Browser, which allows the teacher to navigate through the eight
key learning areas (syllabuses) and relevant strands. Also,
integrated as the ninth key learning area is the Year 2 Net.
The outcomes are presented in a graphical form and can be dragged
onto Discovery Journeys when they are to be used. The Outcomes
Browser highlights outcomes that have already been used in a
different colour, as well as displaying discretionary outcomes in
another colour.
All of the outcomes from the KLAs are available, including
Foundation Level and Beyond Level 6. There is also an IEP/ISP level
which can be edited, like the foundation level, to add new outcomes
for students with learning difficulties.
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Linked Elaborations
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In order to assist in the planning process, certain documents
have been linked to various items to provide a one-stop solution.
For instance, double-clicking on outcomes, in the Outcomes Browser
will load the elaborations for that outcome. All of the following
documents are available from the syllabuses or other educational
documents:
- Outcome elaborations - Sourcebook Guidelines
- Strand statements - Syllabus
- Level statements - Syllabus
- Curriculum Organiser statements
- Productive Pedagogies - Classroom Reflection Manual
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Discovery Journey Bank
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At North Lakes State College, units of work are known as Discovery
Journeys. In Curriculum Liberator, Discovery Journeys are handled
like word processing documents, in that one is opened/loaded and
worked on. This way a planning session can span multiple days
and Discovery Journeys can be opened and closed as required.
There are four types of Discovery Journey supported:
- Year Level
- Preschool
- Specialist (Music, HPE, LOTE)
- IEP/ISP
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Planning Components
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The planning process has been broken down into a series of
components to allow for simpler data entry. The information is
then used on a series of reports for each Discovery Journey and
report cards.
There is also a collection of all messages used in Discovery
Journeys called the Message Bank. Like the Outcomes Browser,
messages can be dragged onto the appropriate data entry screens
saving the teacher any duplicate typing.
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Pedagogies
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Another of the components of Discovery Journey planning is
Productive Pedagogies. Here the teachers can select the appropriate
pedagogy class from each of the main groups as well as enter the
statement as to how it is being addressed.
Linked to each of the pedagogy classes, is the text from the
Classroom Reflection Manual outlining what each means.
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