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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
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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:
The Strategy in a nutshell It 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.
A practitioner’s story https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/pages/View.aspx?pin=9WWLW8 Lee Ann Green Principal, Eastwood Primary School
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 Provide relevant year level docs Create a school process by developing model unit together By mid Nov: Year level leader facilitating literacy learning at their team meetings 2012 Staff opinion survey demonstrates an increase of role clarity for team leaders Literacy Leader with team / level leaders Weekly meetings rotating between APT / after school Key Characteristics docs (online), Year level curriculum outline. All to bring laptops to access additional resources
ELABORATE: Literacy and Numeracy 6-18 Month Strategy Activity 4: Developing an Action Plan Term: Three Key components/elements: Professional Leadership 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.
Contact us www.education.vic.gov.au/vlns vlns@edumail.vic.gov.au