Session Information
03 SES 13 A, From Political Decision to Change in the Classroom: Successful Implementation of Curriculum Policy
Symposium
Contribution
The major foci of the Hungarian education systems development are ensuring the effectiveness of education, increasing its efficiency, and ensuring equity. In order to achieve this goal, a new system of governance has been built into the education system. Since 2010, this new system of governance has included vigorous state engagement and centralization. In this paper, we describe the new curriculum-related tools that serve more coherent and complex content regulation, preparation, support, and control. The two most important indirect tools of the new content regulation system are the complex method of educational program development and the new generation of textbooks that is being created by the state textbook development program. The government facilitates preparation for the new curricula by introducing a new teacher training system and assisting teachers with professional advice concerning: curriculum implementation materials, education programs, best practices, and reference institutions. Government also provides support for teachers by professional advisors, dissemination and adaptation of good pedagogical practices, support for individual-level horizontal exchange of experience between teachers. The government monitors the accomplished work of schools and teachers based on the new curriculum with the following tools: the new teachers’ inspection and performance assessment system and the development of a system of students’ learning outcome requirements that supports performance evaluation of institutions.
References
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