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Challenges faced by Instructional Leaders

Challenges faced by Curriculum and Instructional Leaders

Curriculum and instructional leaders face a number of challenges in today's Australia. One is the universal implementation of the Australian Curriculum, which is intended to be implemented across Australia, regardless of locale or the nature of the people and communities it touches (Halsey, Drummond, & van Breda 2010, p. 1). Still another is the difficulty of integrating a curriculum, which is a complex process (Muller, Jain, Loeser, & Irby 2008, p. 778). The need to address diversity of all kinds of students within the curriculum and the instruction is paramount; this is especially challenging with special education students (DiPaola & Walther-Thomas 2003, p. 5). Yet another challenge is the gap between changes in curriculum and concomitant changes in practice . With rapid technological change occurring, the challenge of encouraging instructional and curriculum leaders to adopt new and emerging technologies at least as rapidly as they are being adopted among the population is a difficult one (Keengwe, Kidd, & Kyei-Blankson 2009, p. 23). Finally, the task of improving the performance of low-performing schools is perennially challenging (Fleischman & Heppen 2009, p. 105).

The universal implementation of the Australian Curriculum across a diverse Australia poses problems for curriculum and instructional leaders.

One is the universal implementation of the Australian Curriculum, which is intended to be implemented across Australia, regardless of locale or the nature of the people and communities it touches (Halsey, Drummond, & van Breda 2010, p. 1). Since most of the policymakers and those designing and managing programs that are supposed to benefit students in rural areas are actually urban leaders, developing curriculum for rural students is problematic for them, and implementing this urban-inspired curriculum is difficult for rural leaders (...

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