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Victorian Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat
Literacy and numeracy 6-18 month strategy: P-10 improvement schedule for school leaders
Audience:
• build familiarity with the Literacy and numeracy 6-18 month strategy: P-10 improvement schedule for school leaders
• develop an understanding of how you can use the Strategy to support your work
• develop an action plan for your work in improving literacy and numeracy outcomes.
• School leadership team
Learning objectives:
Literacy and Numeracy in Victoria – Key Resources
The Strategy in a nutshellIt is one component of Victoria’s approach to literacy and numeracy improvement
It was designed to promote dialogue
It was developed to support 300+ schools in receipt of National Partnership Smarter Schools funding
It illustrates the minimum levels of action required to ensure a school wide focus on literacy and numeracy
It is not a checklist.
Structure
A practitioner’s story
Lee Ann Green
Principal, Eastwood Primary School
https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/pages/View.aspx?pin=9WWLW8
Ordered sharing
• What is your initial response to the digital story?
• What are some key ideas that you could take away from listening to the principal of Eastwood Primary School?
Insert Digital story
Reflecting on practice
• Highlighting current practice
• Discussing the differences and gaps
What could this mean for our school?
• Identifying the issues• Explaining what it all may mean
An Action Plan • Useful for all members of the
leadership team• Break down into meaningful
components • Focuses on the essential aspect –
the actions taken
ELABORATE: Literacy and Numeracy 6-18 Month Strategy Activity 4: Developing an Action Plan
Term: Three Key components/elements: Professional Leadership
What Who When How Resources to utilise What will success look like?
Strengthening PLTs – develop teacher capacity to analyse student data by cross referencing
Using Key Characteristics of Effective Literacy and Numeracy Teaching – develop capacity in planning and instruction
Using the Equity Guidelines – develop capacity in the specific demands of literacy and numeracy education for students from low SES backgrounds
Literacy Leader with team / level leaders
Weekly meetings rotating between APT / after school
Provide relevant year level docs
Create a school process by developing model unit together
Key Characteristics docs (online), Year level curriculum outline. All to bring laptops to access additional resources
By mid Nov: Year level leader facilitating literacy learning at their team meetings2012 Staff opinion survey demonstrates an increase of role clarity for team leaders
ELABORATE: Literacy and Numeracy 6-18 Month Strategy Activity 4: Developing an Action Plan
Term: Three Key components/elements: Professional Leadership
What Who When How Resources to utilise What will success look like?
Strengthening PLTs – develop teacher capacity to analyse student data by cross referencing
Using Key Characteristics of Effective Literacy and Numeracy Teaching – develop capacity in planning and instruction
Using the Equity Guidelines – develop capacity in the specific demands of literacy and numeracy education for students from low SES backgrounds
All teachers working within the Science Domain
Scheduled Domain meetings, with support of Domain leader (as required)
Provide sessions on the literacy demands of Science, develop a Domain planning process, develop “how to” docs to support teachers
Key Characteristics docs (online), Domain level curriculum outline. All bring laptops to access additional resources
2012 all Science planning meetings and documents will include literacy considerations; literacy demands of Science support material will be completed and shared
Developing your own action plan • Select one component of the Strategy
in a term
• Locate what you have responsibility for doing
• Using the template, begin developing your action plan
• Work one task all the way through to success on the template
• Tip: look in other terms for more information
Evaluating the Strategy
• Using the Strategy is not an ‘extra’ and should not be evaluated on its own
• Evaluate its effectiveness in supporting your planning through your current reflection processes
• Use the resources provided by the School and Network Accountability and Improvement Frameworks.