ALL+PfS

=Accelerating Literacy Learning PfS (Programme for Students)=
 * This is where we want to teachers to add their reflections on the development and outcomes of our literacy intervention.**
 * Each teacher will target 3 students each that are reading below their National Standard and monitor their progress.**
 * During the 15 weeks of intensive intervention teachers will reflect on their practise and their literacy programmes, they will analyse their reading data and will make changes for the better.**

Some key themes from the ALL seminar in Wellington:
 * The leadership is crucial, so the roles are clear and the project is successful
 * Accelerated teaching – every minute counts, don’t keep doing what doesn’t work.
 * Our big outcome, we want to see our students progressing at a rate we have never seen before.
 * Improved school systems for accelerated literacy learning
 * This is a research project to get better quality and effectiveness as we go
 * Key themes: accelerated learning and pedagogy responds to individual learning strengths and needs
 * Urge us to think of this as a **__collaborative approach__** i.e. avoid a broom cupboard approach, how do we get the conversations going and how do we resource it
 * We will be asked to record our reflections i.e. bullet points, end of week journal, wikispace blog
 * Reflective practice – reflecting on the teaching i.e. not external attributions – bus late, pencils not sharpened.

Session 1: Questions from our literacy leader to complete:
Please answer these reflection questions before Friday. There is no right or wrong answers so please do not stress. I am just wanting some baseline data to start our teacher inquiry process.

1. What does a good literacy programme cover?

2. What components do you have in your programme?

3. What will I see when I visit your classroom during literacy?

4. How do you know what you do is effective? How do you monitor this?

5. Is there an area you would like to up-skill in or can you suggest ways to improve on your practice/programme?

Please Read Chapter 1 in Effective Literacy before next Monday. You will be asked to reflect on this chapter at next weeks Learning Circle.