LNAP: NSW Literacy and Numeracy Action Plan 2017-2021

In collaboration with Catholic Education Canberra Goulburn, St Pat’s will continue to receive support for Kindergarten to Year 2 Literacy and Numeracy development through school based instructional leadership.

In my role as Instructional Leader at St Pat’s I will endeavour to;

• Lead whole school professional learning in literacy and numeracy.
• Clarify expectations for classroom practice, informed by system wide, evidence based, best practice.
• Embed powerful contemporary approaches to learning through developing a culture of learning that builds capacity to deepen insight and meaning.
• Support the implementation of best practice through a co-teaching model (co-planning, co-teaching, co-debriefing, co-evaluating).
• Collaborative analysis of assessment data to inform point of need instruction.
• Organisation and collation of assessment data
• Assisting teachers in the design and implementation of intervention strategies for students at risk and requiring support, through leading and modeling best practice.

I will be co-teaching in classrooms daily to support teachers in K-2 to implement best practice in teaching literacy and numeracy.

Over the next 2 weeks we are focussing on;

 NO HANDS UP/USING POPSTICKS in the classroom.

Random response systems like no hands up engage the entire class of students and set an expectation that every student has a voice. No hands up ensures there is no favouritism and helps identify gaps in student understanding. Teachers use popsticks at any point in a lesson to increase the engagement of all students. The use NHU demonstrates that opinions, thoughts, ideas and reflections of each person in the classroom are valuable.