Literacy Years 1-13

The accredited facilitators of Education Support Services offer targeted support to schools to address the literacy demands of the NZ Curriculum in all learning areas. Literacy support is evidence-based, comprehensive and designed to address reading, writing and oral language to support students to meet the language demands across the curriculum.

We support schools by:

• Providing professional development in literacy leadership across primary and secondary schools
• Collaborating with teachers to build pedagogical practice in literacy across the curriculum
• Developing capability in the use of effective literacy assessment practice and the use of relevant assessment tools
• Supporting teachers to inquire into the impact of their literacy practice
   

Facilitation may include:

• In-depth support for a team of teachers in a school, which includes regular visits to meet with focus teachers, observations, and wananga to share progress of target students
• Building literacy capability within learning areas
• Working with groups of schools and Kāhui Ako
• Sharing practices that support students to learn
• Reviewing current programmes and collaborating to design new learning experiences
• Building skills in data analysis and ways of using the data to improve literacy achievement, including the use of Learning Progression Frameworks in Reading and Writing
• Developing culturally responsive pedagogies and practices
• Tailoring a programme to meet the needs of individual teachers, school or cluster
   

Accredited Facilitators

Year 1–8: Lauren Latimer and Henrica Schieving
Year 1–13: Denise Hitchcock