Deirbhile Nic Craith

Education Officer

17 Samhain 2011

Literacy permeates the curriculum

DES Circular - 56/11 (a) Improved professional development for

teachers (CPD)

(b) Increasing the time available for teaching literacy and numeracy

(c) Improving arrangements for assessment of children’s literacy and numeracy

achievement

(d) Better arrangement for reporting children’s progress

(e) Co-operating with the administration of national and international

assessment studies

What should a primary school

curriculum for the 21st century look

like?

Assessment• Is the inspectorate’s criticism of our underutilisation of assessment justified?

• What is the role of standardised tests in improving literacy• At school level?• At system level?

• How can we identify and share our successes?

Partnership with parents based on mutual trust, understanding,

respect and support

Managed Professional

professional who operated efficiently and effectively … no more than a skilled technician … has specified competencies, is extrinsically motivated within a contractual relationship, and produces what the performance indicators measure (Olssen et al, 2004)

Professional leadership for the 21st

century