Currently there is no national quality assessment of published curriculum materials in Norway. This puts a large personal responsibility on the teacher to develop their lessons in order to reach the competence objectives in the national curriculum. However, many teachers still continue to lean too much on curriculum materials to achieve the competence objectives in appropriate ways.
The lack of national quality assurance of published curriculum material was one of the reasons that led to this investigation about what kind of resources teachers use and how they use them. This paper reports from two case-studies including seven teachers in upper primary school in Norway.
