Role of Administrators

• To support the development of a strong collection of resources to encourage Resource-based Learning. Teachers should be encouraged to use community-based resources. In addition, the use of technological devices is important.

• To support teachers who wish to collaborate to plan units, to expand their repertoire of instructional methods, and to use appropriate evaluation strategies.

• To inform parents, boards, and the community that the Secondary Mathematics Program outlines specific concepts and skills that need to be developed. Instruction will be influenced by the previous experiences of teachers and students, community resources, and the cultural background of students.

• To inform parents, boards, and the community that the program encourages teachers to use a variety of instructional strategies and methods that are appropriate to the teaching of the mathematics curriculum. These strategies and methods will in turn require a variety of evaluation procedures.

Saskatchewan Education plans to maintain the curriculum for secondary mathematics through information provided in the Learning Resources Distribution Centre Order Form. Other support will come through Core Curriculum initiatives involving school divisions, and periodic updates through Core Curriculum Bulletins or on Saskatchewan Education's WWW Home Page (Internet site). The Western Protocol Mathematics work has informed our developments to date.

Curriculum Evaluation

The new secondary mathematics courses will be evaluated after the implementation phase as part of the curriculum development cycle. Mathematics curriculum evaluation at the Secondary Level is scheduled to take place after the year 2000. Alignment with the Western Protocol Mathematics Framework may occur after this.