THE SECONDARY LITERACY PROJECT UPDATE 2011

1. OTHER DATA FOCUS GROUP 1 GEALIS LIT. STRATEGIES TEACHER GOALS OBSERVATION asTTle CONSOLES FEEDBACK WALK-THROUGHS STUDENT VOICE FOCUS GROUP 2 LIT. & CONTENT AIMS READING MLGE TEST FEB SURVEYS STUDENT GOALS TEST NOV STUDENT LEVELS TIME DEPT INITIATIVES SMT DATA TRACKER RESEARCHERS FACILITATOR SUPPORT PLGs BOOK SWOP DAY PD READING HOUR TEACHER GROUPS THE 20 BUILDING BLOCKS FOR LITERACY PROGRESS THE SECONDARY LITERACY PROJECT UPDATE 2011

2. 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 AnalysingasTTle and other evidence Observation of teachers teaching by WKS, PPE and Faciltator Understanding pedagogy through the GEALIS FOCUS GROUP 2011

3. FACILITATOR SUPPORT fromALANA MADGWICKTEAM SOLUTIONS Richard and PPE attend wananga that share best practice across all of the schools in the project eg KGHS, KBHS, Marcellin College,

4. 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 DATA TRACKER

5. ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE OF ALL STAFF with asTTle’s curriculum profiling • 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!

6. 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

7. STUDENTS SETTING GOALS USING e-asTTle CURRICULUM TARGETS

8. 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 WORK IN DEPARTMENTS

9. 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 GEALIS

10. 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 READING STRATEGIES

11. OBSERVATION OF FOCUS GROUP TEACHERS

12. STUDENT VOICE during observation

13. COGNITION FILMING • Selected teachers are being filmed during this project

14. Each lesson with a Literacy focus has a Content or knowledge aim and a literacy or language aim CONTENT AIMANDLITERACY AIM

15. Level 1 Literacy tracking • 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.

18. Tracking spreadsheets 1 and 2

19. 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