I believe teachers in my school have the freedom and capacity to create and deliver curriculum as they professionally deem fit. Mostly teachers focus their attention on the NSW Syllabus documents and only a few take a cursory glance at the Australian Curriculum. Our senior science teacher does correlate programming with both documents and aligns outcomes with the NSW syllabus. Grade teams are mostly quite adept at sharing the load and work together and pool resources to implement curriculum. Our Principal encourages collegiality and collaboration and certainly promotes trying new things. An informal recess discussion about how much focus should we pay to the Australian curriculum concluded with an executive staff member saying NSW Syllabus until we hear otherwise. The rest of us are still on the fence… Any thoughts as to where our focus should lie at the moment?
