Plan for Literacy Flashcards
What would your immediate priorities be if you were appointed to this acting post?
Short term - Building on the relationships I already have in the department.
Identifying priorities.
Medium to long term = Literacy plan.
Short term (Opt. 1)
Building relationships.
Short term (Opt. 2)
Immediate Priorities
Medium to Long Term (Opt. 3)
Literacy Plan
also Study Skills, Retrieval Practice and Metacognition
Literacy Plan
Stage 1
Identifying the problem.
What pupils are being asked to do.
Weighting heavily skewed in favour of one skill.
Also John Hattie’s #1 skill.
Underdeveloped vocabulary which is KNOWLEDGE rather than a skill.
To understand Literacy all staff need to know how this feels and how to encourage pupils to use this skill in the context of their subject domain.
Literacy Plan
Stage 2
Quick example
HAPPY - Content, delighted, pleased.
OLD - ancient, mature, elderly, wise.
SUCCESS - triumph, victory, prosperity, achievement and attainment.
Vocabulary store is underdeveloped.
Don’t retrieve from that store with enough frequency.
Reading for pleasure.
Addictive gaming.
Humble book.
Not just poverty. “Time-poor”
Literacy Plan
Stage 3
Solution
Targeted Literacy classes (check)
Simple lesson/worksheets. Every teacher. Every subject. (2 or 3 + planned absence)
Teachers as mentors. Must be interested in the subject matter. TTT in English first.
Retrieval. Retrieval. Retrieval. Lifting weights.
DYW and SLLW. Debating.
Library as the HUB.
Next year S1, P7 training at end.
Year 2: S2 plus incoming data from S1.
Desktop Backgrounds
Literacy Group: SfP and keen staff. English staff are experts and mentors only.
Literacy Plan
Stage 4
Parents and EDC
Evening workshop plus online support.
Vocabulary and Consoles/Netflix.
Proper Literacy Cluster. We lead it. 3 times a year.
Change the model. EDC Literacy PT.
