Planning for the sustainability of an Asia Aware school

Who? / What? / Key questions / How/when? (Actions)
Governance / School charter
Mission statement
School vision/values /
  • Why is Asia important to this community?
  • What is your community vision for being Asia Aware?
  • How will you develop a shared vision between the community, board and teachers?
  • What values would underpin your school being an Asia Aware school?
  • What values would students in your school learn from your school being an Asia Aware school?
/ What evidence? Survey staff and community.
Governance / Strategic plan
Setting goals and priorities /
  • How will Asia awareness be incorporated into the existing school strategic plan?
  • What will be incorporated into the strategic plan?
  • What goals will the school work towards over the next five years?
/ Develop strategic plan.
Write goals for one year, three years, and five years.
Management / Implementation of strategic plan
Setting targets /
  • How will you implement changes?
  • How will you ensure the whole school accepts responsibility for becoming Asia aware, and that the teachers and students are supported in this?
  • What resources or assets will be required (professional learning, personnel, funding and equipment)?
/ Devise action plan for five years. (What will the achievements look like in three to five years?)
What outcomes will achieve the goals?
Write/share the performance indicators to evaluate progress towards specific outcomes and targets.
Prioritise activities.
Professional learning for teachers is built into the process.
Management and teachers / School curriculum design /
  • What parts of your school’s Asia awareness vision impacts on your existing curriculum?
  • What changes to the school curriculum might be needed (values, key competencies, and learning areas)?
/ Choose the curriculum outcomes that will be used to demonstrate progression towards the school’s Asia awareness goals.
Who? / What? / Key questions / How/when? (Actions)
Teachers / Teaching and learning programmes /
  • What key concepts about Asia should students learn?
  • Which learning areas best support the learning of these concepts?
  • What is the best teaching approach?
  • How engaging and relevant is the content and context?
  • How can the students be active in their learning?
  • What will the evidence be to indicate progression?
/ Programmes have units and lesson outcomes that support new learning about Asia.
Formative and summative assessments are devised to demonstrate progression and provide data for review process.
School and community / Other school activities /
  • Are there co-curricular activities that support Asia awareness?
  • What learning will these contribute to?
  • Are there other outcomes that will result (eg community outcomes, student leadership encouraged)?
  • What opportunities exist nationally or regionally to piggyback on?
/ Teachers, students, and community are involved in planning co-curricular activities.
Externally provided opportunities are identified.
Management / Report to school community
Self-review /
  • Is progress towards the goals being met? (What does the data tell us?)
  • What changes are needed?
/ Annually report on progress.
Changes incorporated after self-review process.

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