The overhaul of the NSW primary school syllabus should benefit 800,000 students, but we must teach their teachers how to implement it.
that sets out a more ambitious vision of what children should learn in their first seven years at school.
A well-designed syllabus takes the guesswork out of what teachers need to cover in their classrooms and helps ensure students have the opportunity to learn the same things at the same pace, whether they live in Grafton or Potts Point. But a poorly designed syllabus can create additional workload for teachers and perpetuate a “lesson lottery”, where what is taught in each classroom is left to chance.
These revisions recognise that learning is cumulative, and that building background knowledge is crucial to prepare primary students for the challenges of secondary school and beyond.But revising the syllabus is the easy part. The government must not underestimate the implementation challenge, especially for a workforce that has communicated loud and clear that it’s struggling with onerous workloads.
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