LITERACY PROFESSIONAL LEARNING RESOURCE Primary Schools Program

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LITERACY PROFESSIONAL LEARNING RESOURCE Primary
Schools Program

• Session 6 Planning for School Implementation

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Session 6 (Day 2) aims to

• reflect on your understandings from the Literacy
  Professional Learning Resource
• consider and plan the best opportunities for
  implementation at your school
• formulate a goal to implement the Literacy
  Professional Learning Resource
• develop a plan to achieve your goal.

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Framework for reflective thinking

• Diamond Ranking
• record a new idea or learning on a post-it. One
  idea per post-it. You should have nine
  post-its altogether.
• before writing on the post-it make sure it
  looks like this

Reference Kath Murdoch 2005, Take a moment40
Frameworks for reflective thinking Seastar
Education Consulting
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Framework for reflective thinking

• arrange your nine post-its into a diamond.
• the first square represents the
  understanding/strategy that will have the most
  impact on literacy learning at your school and
  the last square the least .

Most
Least
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Activity - Explore your diamond ranking using a
Three Step Interview

• Interview questions
• - What did you learn?
• - What challenged your thinking?
• - What has this made you wonder?
• - How would you use these strategies with
  colleagues and students?

In groups of three A interviews B B interviews
C C interviews A
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Key principles for effective school planning and
operation

• build capacity
• develop a school literacy plan
• create literacy environments and communities
• respond to diverse student needs.

Source Literacy Teaching and Learning in
Victorian Schools Paper No. 9 Part A
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Build capacity

• Schools can build their capacity for effective
  literacy instruction through engagement with
  others, other schools and professional bodies.
  Teachers engaging in professional conversations
  with others allows sharing of effective ideas and
  creation of a learning organisation. Schools
  should cluster with other schools in the area or
  like schools to create professional learning
  clusters.

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Develop a school literacy plan

• Effective literacy instruction and planning
  requires a whole school literacy plan. This must
  be a living document, enacted in all classrooms,
  and discussed across the different year levels by
  teachers, allowing transitions in teaching and
  learning for students from year to year.

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Create literacy school environments and
communities

• An effective literacy environment goes beyond
  the school. The literacy plan should be
  developed in consultation with members of the
  community and shared with members of the
  community. Parents and caregivers should be
  informed about the expectations of the school and
  instructional practices so that they also can
  assist in the development of their childs
  literacy skills.

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Respond to diverse student needs

• Effective literacy teaching for all students
  requires early identification of potential
  difficulties in literacy development and ongoing
  assessment and monitoring of students progress.
  Once identified, programs and interventions can
  be implemented to support the individual learning
  needs of students.

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Setting a goal to implement the Literacy
Professional Learning Resource

• Consider
• Student Learning Whole School Self Assessment
  Tool
• new understandings of the Resource
• key principles for effective school planning and
  operation
• the professional learning needs of your staff.

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Key questions to consider

• How are you going to share, motivate and inform
  staff?
• How are you going to make the staff aware of the
  Resource?

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Setting a goal

• The goal can involve
• an individual colleague
• Professional Learning Team
• whole staff.

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SMART Goal

• Specific is your goal to the point and related
  to informing
• your staff of the Resource?
• Measurable how will you know when you have
  reached
• your goal?
• Achievable - is your goal something you know you
  can
• achieve?
• Realistic - is your goal reflective of the
  professional
• learning needs of your staff?
• Time - can you achieve your goal within the time
  frame?

www.nexus.edu.au/Divisions/curriculum/clp/Vacation
Literacy/smart.htm
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Setting a goal

• Develop a goal
• Be prepared to share

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Hands on demonstration- clear focus
Demonstrate at a Leadership Meeting. Share Paper
No.9.
Make display of work samples/photos/ideas from
the resource to create discussion
Select a TS from the program to use
Share the resource at a Professional Learning
Team planning meeting
Create a bookmark for each staff outlining the
link to the resource!
Post the link on the school server with blurb
Add to favorites
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Action plan

• A detailed plan describing the actions and steps
  used to implement a strategic plan.
• www.fiu.edu/pie/sec8appglossary.htm

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Developing an action plan

Get the action plan template here.
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Developing an action plan
Responsibility Chart Literacy Leader
Professional Learning Resource R responsibility
A approval S support I - inform
Get the responsibility chart here.
Adapted from Eleanor Davis School Leadership
Program 2005
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Responsibility chart

• R- Responsibility to see actions occur.
• A- Approval of actions with the right to veto.
• S- Support to support so the actions occur.
• I - Informed of actions with no right to veto.

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Bone diagram
Ideal Situation (Goal)
Positive forces that create growth
Current Situation
Negative forces that prevent change
www.cap.nsw.edu.au/QI/TOOLS/abc/bonediagram.htm
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Bone diagram

• Identify current situation (dot points)
• write your ideal situation in relation to
  achieving your goal
• list the Positive Forces above the bone diagram
• list the Negative Forces below the bone diagram

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Developing a plan

• Develop a plan for implementation of the
  Literacy Professional Learning Resource.