THE SECONDARY LITERACY PROJECT

UPDATE 2011

THE 20 BUILDING BLOCKS FOR LITERACY PROGRESS

OTHER DATA FOCUS GROUP 1 GEALIS LIT. STRATEGIES

TEACHER GOALS OBSERVATION asTTle CONSOLES

FEEDBACK WALK-THROUGHS STUDENT VOICE

READING MLGELIT. & CONTENT AIMS

FOCUS GROUP 2

TEST FEB

TEST NOVSTUDENT GOALS STUDENT LEVELS

PLGs

DEPT INITIATIVES DATA TRACKER

BOOK SWOP DAY PD READING HOUR TEACHER GROUPS

RESEARCHERS

SURVEYS

FACILITATOR SUPPORT

SMTTIME

FOCUS GROUP 2011

• 10 teachers of high needs classes 6 of whom are paired around the same class

• Workshop sessions of 2 hours twice or three times per term

• Analysing asTTle and other evidence• Observation of teachers teaching by

WKS, PPE and Faciltator• Understanding pedagogy through the

GEALIS

FACILITATOR SUPPORT from

ALANA MADGWICKTEAM SOLUTIONS

Richard and PPE attend wananga that share best practice across all of the schools in the project eg KGHS, KBHS, Marcellin College,

DATA TRACKER• The data collection analysis exercise is huge. I need

help and have asked for this for next year.

• Stephanie Goddard does our number crunching and later in the year Pat Barrett will do some of the post –test data tracking

• Each curriculum level is divided into three sub-levels. The range of each sub-level determines progress

• Maturation = one sublevel of improvement

• Accelerated improvement is 2 plus sub-levels

•Moving students from 4a to 5b involves moving them sometimes 60 points!

ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE OF ALL STAFF with asTTle’s curriculum profiling

THIS YEAR• Pipe has visited 34 Year 9 and 10 classes to:

– Give each student their e-asTTle results– Help students to set targets using the

template on the next slide– Criticism that of the project last year was that

students did not have enough engagement with their results and what they needed to do to improve

• Other classes were targeted by other teachers in the English Department

STUDENTS SETTING GOALS USING e-asTTle CURRICULUM TARGETS

WORK IN DEPARTMENTS

• We have asked HOFs to use time in departments to share the whole process by using the Focus Group teachers form 2010 and 2011 to share their knowledge and skills about the SLP

• We are finding that many of the resources in some subjects do not have enough sustained reading in them

• Time needs to be made available for those resources to be developed and the Department PD slot is the time for that. If you need more please ask

GEALIS

• Guidelines for Effective Adolescent Literacy instruction• Understanding why a strategy is effective based on

research evidence• The most effective strategies tick a good number of the

12 guidelines.• Each guidelines is supported by research

READING STRATEGIES

• Skimming and scanning• 3-2-1• Reciprocal reading• Reading mileage• Vocab lists• Building up our stocks of these on the

SLP wikispace and on Department Backups

OBSERVATION OF FOCUS GROUP TEACHERS

STUDENT VOICE during observation

COGNITION FILMING

• Selected teachers are being filmed during this project

CONTENT AIMAND

LITERACY AIM

• Each lesson with a Literacy focus has a Content or knowledge aim and a literacy or language aim

• Pat Barrett is the data tracker for Literacy and Numeracy

• We would like some feedback ways from staff so that Level 1 students can increase their engagement with their results through the course of the year.

Level 1 Literacy tracking

Tracking spreadsheets 1 and 2

Talk to the people alongside you

• In groups of 3 or 4, recommend ways that we can communicate to the students these results

• Suggestions have been to use:– Form teachers– Subject teachers– Both