Tuesday, 13 September 2016

What are literacy leaders doing?

TKI has a new portal full of examples for Accelerated Lift in Literacy - CHECK IT OUT 

Literacy Online 

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Excel in teaching so our learners will excel in the future


The power of a quote to start dialogue about the role of leadership 

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. Ralph Nader

Trues leadership lies in guiding others to success, in ensuring that everyone is performing at their, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well. Bill Owens 

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself. Joel Barker.


Classroom Observations
Timperley (2013) 

Routine Experts  
Teachers transmit content and skills to students and give them opportunities to respond to that knowledge and practise these skills

Adaptive Experts 
Teachers who focus on 
  • promoting valued outcomes for each learner
  • continual learning professional 
  • promoting outcomes for each learner
  • know each learner 
  • find content or way of teaching them that will help them
  • ongoing inquiry to advance how their student outcomes
  • adapt their teaching for every learner
  • acquire more sophisticated knowledge of the learner and their learning

Start with the WHY; Great leaders inspire everyone to take action
Why? 
Protocols
Feedback

Why do we moderate? 
Tasks get more complex over time 
How consistent are we in our understanding of the literacy progressions? 
Do we align with National Standards?
Our OTJ's need to be defendable and justifiable 

PACT tool has a literacy exemplars that are awesome



Think Big
Think Real World
Think broad context about literacy


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