1. Developing a literacy implementation strategy
John Munro

2. How can schools improve literacy teaching ?
Schools need a workable strategy. This includes:
What is useful knowledge to teach staff ?
How to teach it ?
How staff will learn to teach it ?

3. What can you do to build your school’s professional knowledge and capacity for literacy teaching?

4. What is teachers’ professional knowledge like ?
What teachers knows about literacy, what it looks like
What teachers know about how literacy is taught - options
How teachers will actually teach literacy

5. Need to know what professional k nowledge to target ?
What does literacy look like ?
Useful literacy teaching procedures
HRLTPs are done in teaching
What is literacy knowledge in my subjects ?
What would literacy teaching look like ?
Why should I engage with it ?
How / when /where will I do it in my teaching ?
How to embed gradually ?

6. How to target knowing literacy ?
What staff know about literacy, what it looks like
What staff know about how literacy is taught - options
How staff actually teach literacy

7. To learn more about What does literacy look like ?
How staff can learn this:
What do I need to know to do literacy tasks ?
What does literacy ‘look like’ ?
How to unpack and identify literacy in my teaching ?

8. What does literacy knowledge look like ?
For topics I teach, how to comprehend and use
vocabulary
topic ideas
sentence meanings; key propositions
summary meanings of paragraphs, sections
purpose for which text is written, author’s disposition

9. How to target knowing options for literacy teaching ?
What staff know about literacy, what it looks like
What staff know about how literacy is taught - options
How staff actually teach literacy

10. To learn more about Useful literacy teaching procedures
collaborative discussions in PLTs -possibles, sharing what has worked for others
see videos of teaching procedures
see sample lesson plans; how others have done them in their teaching
how to unpack problems in teaching in terms of literacy
Instructional leadership that suggests optional, alternatives

11. Target doing literacy teaching
What staff know about literacy, what it looks like
What staff know about how literacy is taught - options
How staff actually teach literacy

12. How to learn to do HRLTPs are in teaching ?
discuss in PLTs, visualise and reflect on how to do HRLTPs to teach topics
plan lessons that include the HRLTPs
see HRLTPs demonstrated in their classes
coach staff to do HRLTPs in teaching
trial and evaluate HRLTPs in teaching in action research
monitor how HRLTPs solve particular problems in teaching

13. Know how do develop
an literacy action plan
a professional learning plan
an implementation plan

14. Key questions to assist with action planning
What will effective literacy teaching look like ?
When the effective literacy teaching is in place
what will teachers be doing differently ? What does effective literacy teaching look like ?
how will students be learning differently ? What does effective literacy learning look like ?

15. Some key questions to lead literacy learning
What will effective literacy teaching look like ?
How will your staff learn it ?
What does your staff know now about it ?
How will you lead systematic improvement ?
How will you scaffold /support professional learning ?
How will you set goals for each term ?

16. Key players in the implementation
4 prong approach to PL
SLTs
MLLLs
PLTs CP
Lead literacy learning
Guide PL in literacy
Means for explicit PL in literacy teaching
Trial literacy teachiing

17. What will the school do ? Identify term by term goals
Identify ways of pooling PL regularly
Use specific procedures for PL; PLT led by MLLL
How to use in teaching topics - lesson planning
Demonstration and modeling
Peer and external coaching
Use data in formative way – AfL
Gather summative data -monitored progress

18. Be clear on what you want as outcomes
Have an explicit focus on PL and staff activity:
By end of Term 1 :
What will staff be doing differently?
What will students be doing differently?
What will SLTs be guiding, scaffolding differently ?

19. Leading literacy improvement ?
Some key procedures you may need to develop: How will your school
assist staff to learn literacy teaching procedures ?
scaffold /support professional learning ?
build a group knowledge literacy teaching ?
put in place conditions for improving literacy teaching ?

20. How will you set goals for each year ?
Term
Term outcome
students
teachers
Term 1
Know how to get their knowledge ready
trial getting knowledge ready in teaching
Term 2
use getting knowledge ready when they learn
have improved vocabulary knowledge and strategies
use getting knowledge ready in teaching
trial vocabulary teaching
Term 3
use GKR
work out new word meanings
paraphrase text they read
teach vocabulary and MMM
trial teaching paraphrasing

21. Example : Student outcomes to target in Term 1 2008
Students will have improved ability to
talk + write in sentences about pictures they see in texts
talk + write about the images they generate when they hear the title, its topic, key words or sentences.
suggest possible vocabulary that may be used in the text
identify 5W +H questions the text might answer
paraphrase title and suggest possible ideas in the text.

22. Student learning : Weekly planning proforma
Plan for teaching new aspects of each strategy for Term 1
Week
Use orally
When cued
Read,do, say evaluate
Say and do when read
Apply 1
GKR 2
vocab 3 4 5

23. How can your school develop an explicit professional learning focus through PLTs to build teaching power for literacy ?
Multiple parallel professional learning opportunities ?
Instructional leadership strategy that targets literacy learning

24. Lead building a group effective literacy teaching
All learning begins with what the learners already know.
What procedures will you use to help staff to identify and collate what they know ?
How will you build a ‘group’ knowledge of literacy ?

25. How will you scaffold /support professional learning ?
What time, physical resources are necessary ?
How will you foster goal congruence for enhanced literacy teaching ?
How will you encourage regular professional dialogue, problem solving about literacy learning and teaching ?
How will you encourage collegiate support and collaboration ?

26. How will your staff learn to do it ?
How will staff
be coached /scaffolded to implement new teaching procedures ?
be assisted to plan how to apply them in topics they will teach ?
monitor and modify the procedures ?
see links with VELS ?
become aware that the school leadership is actively supporting this; instructional dialogue ?

27. Staff learning : Weekly planning proforma
See teaching procedures modelled
build procedures into topics to be taught
Trial procedures in classroom
Work on procedures in PLTs
Student outcomes
1-2
3-4
5-6
7-8
9=10

28. How will you set goals for each term ?
Activity
During term
Term outcome
What will teachers do independently ?
What will teachers trial ?
What will teachers be coached to do ?
Collaborative lesson planning ?
Novel student activities ?

29. How will you lead teachers to implement activities each week ?
Weekly planning proforma
HRLTP
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
GKR
Hear key words, visualize the context
Talk about images in sentences
Say what questions the text might answer
vocabulary
Read and spell key words
Work out meanings of key words
synonyms

30. How will your school gather data
Formative data : Afl
Summative data
Know how your school will interpret data and map it into action

31. How can schools gather data about their students’ literacy?
AIM test
Torch test
PAT test
Probe test
Burt test
Teacher assessment reports
What are our literacy data sources?
Does our data show acceptable levels of literacy achievement and literacy improvement as students move through our program?
Bottom line: can we do better???.

32. Monitor the success of professional learning
How will the school monitor
Change in staff knowledge re literacy ?
Improvement in literacy teaching practice ?

33. What can schools put in place to improve literacy ?
Some key procedures to examine:
Code of teaching practice for literacy

34. The conditions for improving literacy teaching
How will you
foster a climate for professional learning about literacy ?
encourage the literacy leaders to lead professional learning ?
show your valuing of the activity ?

35. What we intend to do : train drivers
Drivers trained in how to
teach the HRLTPs
lead professional learning,  
interpret relevant data in terms of what it  means for literacy teaching,
coach,  mentor and lead lesson planning,  
lead professional learning team,  
develop termly action plans and operational plans in literacy

36. The next steps for schools
Analyse and describe students’ achievement in literacy and the tools used. Trends in AIM data in recent years ?
Audit what staff know about literacy. To what extent do they see it demanded in learning ?
Audit what staff know about how to teach literacy.
Where you would like to be at end of 2008 in literacy ?
Plan initial professional learning pathway ?
Resources, support needed ?