Building an 'ambitious and rigorous' primary English curriculum from scratch

Bianca Roberts

By Bianca Roberts
Published December 14, 2021

Picture yourself in 2020: the pandemic is in full force, screens separate you and your fellow educators, and in the midst of it all you are tasked with developing a brand new English curriculum for an equally brand new school, opening its doors Term 1, 2021 … intimidated?

“I don’t think we have agreement in Australia about what a high quality English curriculum looks like," Emina McLean says.

Well, this exact challenge was accepted by Emina McLean, a researcher, educator, and literacy expert, who developed an ‘ambitious and ...

This story appeared in the December 2021 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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