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.
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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.
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Building familiarity
•
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Structure
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A practitioner’s story
Insert Digital story
Lee Ann Green
Principal, Eastwood PS
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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?
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Reflecting on practice
• Highlighting current practice
• Discussing the differences and gaps
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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?
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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
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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.
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Contact us
• www.education.vic.gov.au/vlns
• vlns@edumail.vic.gov.au
Victorian Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat