IRELAND – NCCA
ORGANIZATION
NCCA National Council for Curriculum and Assessment
ESRI Building, Whitaker Square
Sir John Rogerson’s Quay
IE – Dublin 2, D02 K138
www.ncca.ie
CIDREE member
Ms Arlene Forster
arlene.forster(at)ncca.ie
Phone +353 16617177
CIDREE National Coordinator
Ms Tracy Curran
tracy.curran(at)ncca.ie
Phone +353 16617177
Institutional size (f.t. equivalents): 73
Educational levels covered
Target groups
Mission of the institution
The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment advises the Minister for Education on curriculum and assessment from early childhood to senior cycle in post-primary school. The process of formulating the advice for the Minister is evidence-informed, iterative and responsive with children/students and practitioners/teachers at the heart of the Council’s decisions. At NCCA, we strive to achieve this mission by leading and sustaining developments in curriculum and assessment that are sufficiently far-reaching so that all children and students can experience and benefit from enjoyable, engaging, relevant and appropriately challenging experiences to support learning, living in, contributing to, caring for, and working in a changing world.
Key Functions
In developing advice on curriculum and assessment, we are
- working in partnership with children, students, teachers, practitioners, parents, school leaders, managers, and others;
- generating, using and sharing research as a basis for advice, discussion and debate on teaching, learning and assessment;
- collaborating with education partners and wider stakeholders creating conditions to support the successful enactment of curriculum and assessment developments;
- having close regard for inclusion, quality, relevance and progression in young people’s experience of curriculum and assessment.
Relevant Educational Priorities/Projects
- Supporting enactment of the recently updated curriculum framework for early childhood education;
- Redeveloping the curriculum and assessment for primary and special schools;
- Supporting enactment of the curriculum for lower secondary education;
- Redeveloping the curriculum, including assessment arrangements, for upper secondary education.
Relevant Organizational Priorities/Projects
- Working closely with schools and settings, education partners and wider stakeholders to shape curriculum and assessment advice;
- Embedding child/student voice in curriculum and assessment work;
- Drawing on a wide range of research to inform curriculum and assessment developments.
Additional information
Corporate website: www.ncca.ie
Curriculum site: www.curriculumonline.ie
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