LITERACY PROFESSIONAL

LEARNING RESOURCE Primary Schools ProgramSession 6: Planning for School

Implementation

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.

Framework for reflective thinkingDiamond 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 moment:40 Frameworks for reflective thinking’ Seastar Education Consulting

• 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 .

Framework for reflective thinking

Most

Least

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 threeA interviews BB interviews CC interviews A

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

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.

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.

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 child’s literacy skills.

Respond to diverse student needsEffective 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.

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.

Setting a goal to implement the Literacy Professional Learning Resource

How are you going to share, motivate and inform staff?

How are you going to make the staff aware of the Resource?

Key questions

to consider

The goal can involve:

• an individual colleague

• Professional Learning Team

• whole staff.

Setting a goal

SMART GoalSpecific – is your goal to the point and related to informingyour staff of the Resource?

Measurable – how will you know when you have reachedyour goal?

Achievable - is your goal something you know you canachieve?

Realistic - is your goal reflective of the professionallearning needs of your staff?

Time - can you achieve your goal within the time frame?

www.nexus.edu.au/Divisions/curriculum/clp/VacationLiteracy/smart.htm

• Develop a goal

• Be prepared to share

Setting a goal

Share the resource at a Professional Learning Team

planning meeting

Demonstrate at a Leadership

Meeting. Share Paper No.9.

Create a bookmark for each staff outlining the

link to the resource!

Hands on demonstration-

clear focus

Make display of work samples/photos/ideas from the resource to

create discussionSelect a TS from the

program to use

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

Developing an action plan

Get the action plan template here.

Developing an action plan

Project / key

tasks that will

support the

implementation

Date the key

task to be

completed

Team member

involved in the

implementation

Team

member

Team

member

Team

member

Team

member

Responsibility Chart – Literacy Leader Professional Learning ResourceR – responsibility A – approval S – support I - inform

Adapted from Eleanor Davis School Leadership Program 2005

Get the responsibility chart here.

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.

Bone diagram

Current Situation

IdealSituation

(Goal)Positive forces that create growth

Negative forces that prevent change

www.cap.nsw.edu.au/QI/TOOLS/abc/bonediagram.htm

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

Developing a plan

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