Reform of the Danish public school Bettina Lundgaard Hansen and Niklas Grønlund Lind

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Reform of the Danish
public school
Clarification and simplification of the curriculum
Update - 2016
Niklas Grønlund Lind & Bettina Lundgaard
EdReNe seminar, Bruselles
September 26 2016

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Reform of the Danish public school K0-K9
- an improvement of standards – the intention
Three main areas
1. A longer and varied school day with more and improved teaching
and learning.
2. An enhanced professional development of teachers, pedagogical
staff and school principals.
3. Few and clear objectives and simplification of rules and
regulations.

3. Government strategy on IT in K0-K9
This is what we wanted to achieve:
1. More and better digital learning resources
2. Better use of IT and digital learning resources
3. Knowledge on IT-based teaching and documentation of the effects of the
use of IT – spreading best practice
4. Sufficient and efficient IT-infrastructure and equipment

4. Goal-oriented teaching and learning
The reform provide a better framework for working with action-
/goaloriented teaching and learning:
• Clarification and simplification of the curriculum
• An improved digitised support of the student plan
• The ‘new’ educational portal initiativ

5. A longer and varied school day with more and
improved teaching and learning - results
All 97 municipalities experience a good or fairly good development with
developing a more motivating and varied school day.
The municipalities works in different ways developing the school day
 84 cases is facilitated across the schools by the municipality
 71 municipalities include digital resources and/or the new educational portal in
the work
 62 municipalities has rethought the basic structure of the school day
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6. A longer and varied school day with more and
improved teaching and learning - results
The main part of the municipalities:
 experience that digital support for Student learning are progressing
 Facilitate discussions across schools regarding the development of it-supported
learning processes which are based on clear goals and evaluation and feedback.
64% municipalities are participating in – or organize themselves, developing
projects regarding content and organization of tasks.
Main focus for the municipalities regarding learning platforms are the support of
clear goals in the learning process and new work and collaboration areas.
90% of the municipalities has started to implement a learning platform
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Standards:
 DK-LOM: Describe metadata for a learning resource
 DK-Cartridge: Describe how to exchange data between
learning platforms and learning resources
 DK-LTI: Describe how to exchange results between
learning platforms and learning resources
Initiatives 2015-2016
How to do:
Better sharing of
digital learning
resources

8. Next step
K0-K9
 Standard test, in cooperation with schools and suppliers
 Continue developing standards regarding:
 Content - learning resources
 Evaluating learning resources
 The work process of learning resources loan
 The student plans – learning goal progress – “taxonomy”
 Developing the use - and capacity building of learning platforms
K10-K12
 New reforms is to be implemented regarding updating the curriculum and the
it-systems supporting these, developing standards and research regarding
innovative use of IT.
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