The set of curriculum policy documents issued by Ontario's Ministry of Education, first consolidated in their modern form during the 1990s Common Curriculum reforms and continually revised by subject and grade band since, governing what publicly funded elementary and secondary schools across the Canadian province of Ontario must teach. Because education in Canada is a provincial rather than federal responsibility, each Canadian province and territory maintains its own curriculum, and Ontario's is among the most closely watched given the province's size; documents set expectations by subject and grade rather than prescribing methodology.
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Education LevelUpper Secondary Education (ISCED 3) 1 Key ProvisionSets subject-by-subject grade expectations for Ontario's publicly funded schools; Canadian curricula are set provincially, not federally, so no single national curriculum exists. 1 FAQs
Can an Ontario teacher choose to skip parts of the curriculum?
Not by choice: every expectation must be accounted for when planning; changes are allowed only for language learners and students with special education needs.
No. Ontario's policy and program requirements say that all curriculum expectations from the relevant curriculum policies for an elementary grade or a secondary course must be accounted for when planning the classroom program. The one stated flexibility is that changes to curriculum expectations may be made for French-language or English-language learners and for students with special education needs.
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The set of curriculum policy documents issued by Ontario's Ministry of Education, first consolidated in their modern form during the 1990s Common Curriculum reforms and continually revised by subject and grade band since, governing what publicly funded elementary and secondary schools across the Canadian province of Ontario must teach.
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The set of curriculum policy documents issued by Ontario's Ministry of Education, first consolidated in their modern form during the 1990s Common Curriculum reforms and continually revised by subject and grade band since, governing what publicly funded elementary and secondary schools across the Canadian province of Ontario must teach.
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