Victorian Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat The Literacy and Numeracy 6-18 Month Strategy Purpose of this session • Provide a brief overview of the Victorian Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat • Build familiarity with the Literacy and Numeracy 6-18 Month Strategy • 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. Victorian Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat The Victorian Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat The VLNS coordinate and influence literacy and numeracy improvement action with a particular focus on Smarter Schools. They provide state-wide leadership and a focus for effort to sustain improvement in literacy and numeracy. Victorian Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat Literacy and Numeracy in Victoria – Key Documents Numeracy Teaching within Domains 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. Victorian Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat Building familiarity • https://prezi.com/secure/ad1e5cc41900c3b21706310707b0fe6409d69ef2 Victorian Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat Structure Victorian Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat A practitioner’s story Insert Digital story Lee Ann Green Principal, Eastwood PS Victorian Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat Ordered sharing Insert Digital story • What is your initial response to the digital story? • What are some key ideas that you could take away from listening to Lee Ann? Victorian Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat Reflecting on practice • Highlighting current practice • Discussing the differences and gaps Victorian Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat What could this mean for you? • Identifying the issues • Explaining what it all may mean Assessment for Learning Purposeful Teaching Key messages •Learning and teaching plans are differentiated based on student learning data •Students achieving well above or below expected levels are known by name and have appropriate assessments to determine needs, including interventions •The Key Characteristics for Effective literacy and Numeracy Teaching P-6 and 7-10 provide support for teachers in assessing, planning and instruction What does it mean for me? What does it mean for us? Victorian Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat An Action Plan • Useful for all members of the leadership team • Break down into meaningful components • Focuses on the essential aspect – the actions taken What Who When Literacy Leader with team / level leaders Weekly meetings rotating between APT / after school 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 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 meetings 2011 Staff opinion survey demonstrates an increase of role clarity for team leaders What Who When How All teachers working within the Science Domain Scheduled Provide sessions on the literacy Domain meetings, demands of with support Science, develop of Domain a Domain planning process, leader (as develop “how to” required) docs to support 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 teachers Using the Equity Guidelines – develop capacity in the specific demands of literacy and numeracy education for students from low SES backgrounds Key Characteristics docs (online), Domain level curriculum outline. All to bring laptops to access additional resources 2011 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 Victorian Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat 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. Victorian Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat Contact us • www.education.vic.gov.au/vlns • vlns@edumail.vic.gov.au Victorian Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat