Shepparton ,
Goulburn Valley, Victoria
Wilmot Road Primary School, Shepparton, Victoria
The 4Ps: Professional Learning, Personalisation,
Precision & Partnerships
(Reference to Fullan’s 3Ps)
A multi-faceted approach to
improvement through....
•Professional Learning
•Personalisation
•Precision
•Partnerships
Professional Learning...
a connected approach...
• Connected Leadership Model
• Time for professional conversation &
planning
• Strengthened Curriculum
Leadership roles &
responsibilities
Professional Learning Focus;
• Develops our staff skills sharing best practise
• School PLTs are “energised” by our
Neighbourhood PLTs & PD with John Munro
PLT focus:
• Planned use of Class Profiles & analysis of data at
each PLT
Coaching:
• Dedicated modelling, co-teaching and reflection
sessions
• ES PLT
Focused Learning Walks:
• Whole school alignment
Activity...Professional
Learning...
Think about your current Professional
Learning Practice...How can you move it
to exemplary practice and where
will you move it to in 2012?
Personalisation...
Year Profiles provide teachers
with pictorial data about
every student, based on VELS
data for Reading, Writing,
Speaking & Listening &
Number
Personalisation is...
Personalisation is...
Personalisation is...
• Intervention Co-ordination role
• Co-teaching
• Coaching
Activity...Personalisation...
Turn and Talk:
All schools profile their students
in different ways.
How do you use these profiles to
drive the teaching and learning in
your school?
Precision is...
...guided by transparent whole school
approaches...using an explicit AIP as the framework
for accountability...
School
Direction
• Annual Implementation Plan
• Detailed & Specific and aligned to all staff members
Team
Direction
• Explicit Role Descriptions
• Related specifically to team & individual responsibility
for the Literacy & Numeracy Improvement agenda
Individual
Direction
• Staff Performance & Development
• Personalised, incorporates AIP Key improvement
strategies and Student Case Study data
Precision is...
• Implementing the 6-18 month Literacy & Numeracy
Strategy
• Differentiation of learning in classrooms
• Moderation across Departments where we have the
same grade levels in PLT’s
• Identification of Intervention students
• Staff P&D process – 5 identified students per teacher,
from 6 months below expected level
• Current data, student needs, goals,
strategies to support the learning,
termly review built in
Precision is...Case Study
Students to...
1.
2.
Engage teachers in data
Accelerate student
achievements
Activity...Precision...
How do you identify,
monitor and track students
who are 6 months below
the expected level at your
school?
Partnerships...
Family Liaison Officers
• 3 Family Liaison Officers – Arabic, Afghani & Koori
• Building connections between home and school
• Developing common understandings
• Shared Neighbourhood Resource
Activity...Partnerships...
Turn and Talk about the
different partnerships you
have and how you use
these to enhance student
outcomes...
Has the data changed?
Wilmot Road Number 2010 & 2011
growth from March - September
On Demand Testing
0.8
0.7
0.68
0.7
V
E
L 0.6
S
0.5
G 0.4
R
O
0.3
W
T
H 0.2
0.38
0.34
0.33
0.3
0.23
0.22
0.1
0 Grade 3
2010
Grade 3
2011
Grade 4
2010
Grade 4
2011
Grade 5
2010
Grade 5
2011
Grade level growth for a 6 month period March - September
Grade 6
2010
Grade 6
2011
S…
S…
Has the data changed?
Wilmot Road Reading 2010 & 2011
growth from March to September
On Demand Testing
0.7
0.61
V0.6
E
L
S0.5
0.4
0.39
0.43
0.42
G
R0.3
O
W
T0.2
H
0.4
0.32
0.29
0.12
0.1
0
Grade 3
2010
Grade 3
2011
Grade 4
2010
Grade 4
2011
Grade 5 2010
Grade 5 2011
Grade level growth for a 6 month period - March - September
Grade 6
2010
Grade 6
2011
Contact Details...
Jenny Manuel – Principal
manuel.jenny.j@edumail.vic.gov.au
Simone Higgins – Assistant Principal
higgins.simone.a@edumail.vic.gov.au
Sharon Thompson – Literacy/Numeracy Coach
thompson.sharon.l@edumail.vic.gov.au
Wilmot Road Primary School
wilmot.road.ps.shepparton@edumail.vic.gov.au