Student Learning Update

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Student Learning Update

• Strategic Partnerships Program All Networks
  meeting
• Dianne Peck
• Acting General Manager, Student Learning Programs
  
• Office for Government School Education

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Obvious student learning challenges

• Implementing curriculum programs incorporating
  the VELS.
• Combining domains
• Assessing and reporting against the VELS
• Implementing New Student Report Cards inc. A-E
  reporting

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Deeper challenges

• Recognising and responding to diverse student
  learning needs.
• Requires
• Building from what students know and are able to
  do plus clarity about next steps
• Focus on understanding
• Building learning capacity
• skills and dispositions
• Engaging and challenging content
• Recognising and responding to changing student
  learning needs.

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Deeper challenges
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What this requires of teachers

• Deep understanding of
• Learning theory
• How student background/context impacts on
  development
• Learning continuum within relevant dimensions
  (esp. critical understandings and skills)
• Most effective teaching and assessment strategies
  to promote student learning

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Knowledge of the discipline
Pedagogical content knowledge
EFFECTIVE TEACHING
Generalised pedagogical knowledge
Peter Hill, 2003
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Support

• DEECD Student Learning resources
• Curriculum Planning guidelines and modules
• PoLT training and online resource
• Assessment advice and modules
• Developmental continua for English, Maths and
  Science
• Domain pages with related resources
• DigiLearn
• Strategic Partnerships program

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Literacy Professional Learning ResourceAn
overview
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Purpose

• For all classroom teachers to deepen their
  understanding of literacy. This will inform
  their planning for literacy learning and
  assessment for all domains of the Victorian
  Essential Learning Standards.
• For literacy leaders in schools to plan
  opportunities for professional learning for the
  whole staff, in professional learning teams
  and/or for individual teachers.

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Organisation of the resource

• About the resource
• Structure of the resource
• Overview of literacy learning
• Key concepts
• Levels 1-2 Level 3 Level 4 Levels 5-6
  
• Assessment
• Levels 1-2 Level 3 Level 4 Levels 5-6
  
• Teaching strategies
• Levels 1-2 Level 3 Level 4 Levels 5-6
  
• Leadership for literacy learning
• Overview
• Presentations

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Structure of resource
Teaching Strategies
Key Concepts
Assessment
For key concepts, teaching strategies and
assessment, there are notes where applicable,
that provide additional information and
professional learning activities.
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Main messages

• All teachers are teachers of literacy
• A range of theories and research is required to
  best support all students to improve literacy.
• Students oral language is the foundation to use
  language and to use language to learn, across all
  stages of schooling and within all domains.

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Main messages cont

• A balanced and integrated approach to teaching
  literacy is essential.
• Assessment is the starting place for supporting
  literacy through matching teaching strategies to
  individual students needs.

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Literacy professional learning resource

• The resource can be found on the
• English domain page
• http//www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/te
  achingresources/english
• To provide ideas and for further
• information contact
• studentlearning_at_edumail.vic.gov.au