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for School Review in ACT Public Schools", has been distributed to schools for discussion and comment. Responses are being sought by the end of term one, 1990.
The three main purposes of school review are, firstly, to assist schools improve their operations; secondly, to satisfy the requirement that the schools and the department be accountable to the ACT community through the parliamentary process; and, thirdly, to enhance public confidence in ACT public education.
School review is based on a partnership approach involving the school community and the central administration of the department in assisting schools to review their programs and prepare high quality plans for school improvement. The Government is seeking appropriate system-wide coordination and cohesion without reducing the special nature of school based decision making. This will remain the hallmark of education in the ACT.
The Department of Education will soon be issuing for comment and consultation a new draft curriculum policy statement for ACT government schools. The statement will emphasise the partnership in curriculum between the department and the school community. It will focus on the necessity for curriculum planning at the school level to occur within a framework of national and ACT curriculum priorities. The statement will provide a curriculum planning environment that will emphasise high standards of teaching and learning, consistent with the Government's policy. The statement will outline the proposed model of curriculum development for the ACT which identifies and describes three priority concerns: firstly, essential learning outcomes; secondly, essential learning processes; and, thirdly, essential areas of knowledge and experience. The model also envisages how these concerns may be taken up at system, school and classroom level. The Government will be finalising this curriculum policy for government schools by the end of 1990.
I seek leave to continue my remarks on another day. I have to confess that I have not brought my glasses with me to the Assembly today; it is somewhat difficult to read without those and so I ask leave of the Assembly to continue these remarks at a later date.
Leave granted.
TOURISM DEVELOPMENT BUREAU
Ministerial Statement and Paper
MR DUBY (Minister for Finance and Urban Services), by leave: Mr Speaker, I would like to speak today on the performance and the future of the Canberra Tourism Development Bureau. I move to make this statement in response to a narrow and misleading article published in
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