Academic Curriculum

Research and experience tell us that learning is improved in the classroom when teachers take part in developing standards and grade-level objectives and align them with high-quality curricula and resource materials.

The NCE curriculum has been developed by master teachers and a team that has researched curriculum in the US and different countries.

The NCE curriculum includes standards that describe the knowledge and skills every student should know and be able to do in the core academic content areas. They serve to organize an academic subject through a number of generally stated goals for student learning. The next level in the curriculum is the benchmark: a clear, specific description of knowledge or skill that students should acquire by a particular point in their schooling. It is organized beneath the standard whose content it addresses more specifically. And then we have the lesson objectives that define how students demonstrate their proficiency in the skills and knowledge framed by the NCE standards and benchmarks.

NCE has developed over 90 curriculum guides for specific grades and subjects. There is a seven-year cycle for curriculum review and update, gathering feedback and information from teachers in the classroom, and experts in education in different countries.