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Objectives The paper aims to discuss the possibility of ‘Local Curriculum,’ which is developed and officialized by local education offices, to exist with an identity as a curriculum. Methods For this, the curriculum cases of California State, USA and Berlin, Germany were reviewed, and three implications were drawn for the Korea’s local curriculum reform in future: Unifiying the national and local curriculum; aligning the national, local, and school curriculum identically by definition; the possibility of co-existence of national, local, and school curriculum as a curriculum in classrooms. Results Three results are suggested as follows. First, local curriculum should be renamed as municipal-provincial curriculum. Second, the focus of local curriculum should move from general curriculum to subject curriculum. Third, local curriculum should find its own role to support classroom based curriculum development along with the national and school curriculum. Conclusions It is concluded that the stablization of local curriculum developed and enacted in local places(i.e. local education offices, schools, and classrooms, etc.) is one of the keys to open up Korea’s educational future.

Objectives This paper explores the possibility of Assessment as Learning (AaL) and its practice in classrooms. Methods For this, a case study was conducted through Student Voice of Gangyoon, a 6th grade elementary school student who spoke about his experience with classroom assessments. Results The results show that (1) Gangyoon understands the main purpose of assessment as monitoring his learning or growth based on his own intentions. This implies students use assessments to monitor themselves related to their own objectives. (2) Gangyoon assesses his learning with reference to the amount of time his studying and the degree of his understanding. This means students set their own criteria to assess their learning. (3) Gangyoon assesses his learning as a key assessor who makes final judgements on his own learning with consideration of self-assessment and teacher-assessment at the same time. Conclusions It is concluded that AaL is implemented as self-assessment in practice. Furthermore, the possibility of AaL as Learned Curriculum’s major assessment method and as one of its key elements is confirmed by Student Voice on the practice of classroom assessments.

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