sharing literacy learning across the pacific: an international initiative
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Sharing literacy learning across the Pacific: an International initiative. My experiences as a participant in the LEAP program. The matching. Ontario O’Connor Public School, Toronto Approx. 250 pupils K – 5 Ten classes and a behaviour class Inner city school. NSW Yates Avenue P.S. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Sharing literacy learning Sharing literacy learning across the Pacific: an across the Pacific: an International initiativeInternational initiative
My experiences as a My experiences as a participant in the participant in the
LEAP programLEAP program
The matchingThe matching
Ontario• O’Connor Public
School, Toronto• Approx. 250 pupils K
– 5• Ten classes and a
behaviour class• Inner city school
NSW• Yates Avenue P.S.• 256 students P – 6• Nine classes K – 6
with Pre school and an Early Intervention class
Both Schools had:-Both Schools had:-
• Literacy as a major target
• An interest in how data could be used to improve student literacy outcomes
• A wish to develop an international dialogue about school improvement
• Staff who were interested in finding out about practices used overseas to teach literacy.
Yates AvenueYates Avenue
O’ConnorO’Connor
The Australian LegThe Australian Leg
Visit activitiesVisit activities
• Working with, and observing teachers and classes at Yates Avenue.
• Visit to Matthew Pearce P.S. and Lane Cove West P.S.
• Visit to Sydney Secondary College, Balmain Campus
• Meeting with School Education Director
O’ConnorO’Connor• School literacy program based on “New
Moves”
• Emphasis on the students being the heroes of their own story
• Students have knowledge of the structure of writing and the language they use
• Importance of poetry
• Message is constant
In CanadaIn Canada
My ExperiencesMy Experiences• Observe the ways literacy structure was taught
at O’Connor • “Heroes of the Round Table”• ANTHROPOMORPHISM• “Displacing” a story• Anatomy of a story – home, adventure, HOME
(lack/desire, problem, conflict, fulfil the “lack”)• Comedy or Tragedy?• Basic needs– Food, Health, Freedom, Love,
Shelter, Clothing, Home
My ExperiencesMy Experiences
• Students can gain a great deal from the exchange even if it is to discover that although many things are the same there can be some major differences
• Major question posed at both schools was – “Who has the accent?”
After the LEAP ExperienceAfter the LEAP Experience
• Exploring ways of starting meaningful communications between our two schools.
• Use of technology to promote literacy learning
• OUR HOPE –
“From little things Big Things GROW”(Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly)