Under this agreement for 2017
Clifford Park Special School will receive$78,935
This funding will be used to support our Improvement Priorities for 2017.Our Improvement Priorities are:
- Students will achieve their reading expectations or literacy expectations.
Specific targets to improve student outcomes include:
- Precise, measurable reading expectations/literacy expectations written for every student.
- Four weekly data cycles to be implemented for reading/literacy expectations.
- Devise and implement whole school Data Walls.
- Deconstruction of data tools and cyclic implementation of purposeful data tools.
- Reading/literacy expectations recorded for every student in OneSchool Student Plan Support Provisions.
- Termly conferencing between teachers and Peer Feedback Coaches.
- Student Plan meetings with stakeholders occur once a semester.
- Students will engage in age equivalent maths contexts through specialised and explicit pedagogies.
Specific targets to improve student outcomes include:
- All teachers to implement RAMR (Reality, Abstraction, Mathematics, Reflection) pedagogy with specified cohorts of students.
- Evidence of learning data processes to be designed.
- Development of a three year plan for the Learning Area of Maths.
Our initiatives to support the implementation of the Improvement Prioritiesinclude:
- Evidence of Learning Professional Learning Community (PCL) leads the implementation of data processes within the school.
- Professional Learning for all staff regarding Evidence of Learning processes – increase knowledge, skills and competencies on assessment literacy.
- Attendance and professional learning processes instigated from Lyn Sharratt’s Leading Learning Collaborative
- Increase confidence of teachers to deliver the RAMR (Reality, Abstraction, Mathematics, Reflection) cycle through coaching and feedback.
- Engage with external networks to improve knowledge and understanding of mathematics.
Our school will improve student outcomes by
Strategy / Actions / Costs
1a) Define and implement consistent, contextualised and systematic data processes in order to collect, store and use as evidence of learning
b) Use evidence of learning to identify where students are ‘at’, inform targeted teaching and confirm that our curriculum and pedagogical decisions are leading to learning. /
- Deconstruction of data tools
- Development of Data Walls
- Mapping of explicit, cyclic processes of assessment tools
- Purposeful storage of data
- Precise, measurable learning targets/expectations are written for each student
- Teachers receive support/coaching in analysing evidence of learning to develop learning expectations
-Expert Teaching Team: I4S funds used to replace classroom teachers for coaching sessions with Peer Feedback Coaches to improve their classroom practice Community (207012 – Peer Feedback Professional Development $40000)
-Funds used to replace Peer Feedback Coaches to coach teachers (207012 – Peer Feedback Professional Development $40000)
-I4S funds used forteacher aides to support guided reading and literacy learning expectations of individual students (207011 – I4S – Human Resources $34935
-I4S funds used to purchase literacy materials to support reading expectation/literacy learning expectations (207010 – I4S Classroom Resources $4000)
2a) Increase confidence of teachers to deliver the RAMR (Reality, Abstraction, Mathematics, Reflection) cycle /
- Develop shared language and shared practices through a Maths Professional Learning community
- Peer Feedback Coaches provide coaching/support to teachers to develop RAMR cycles
- Engagement in four professional learning days through Special Education Curriculum Cluster (SECC) with Bronwyn Ewing (QUT, School of Teacher Education and Leadership) on Number and Algebra, Measurement, Geometry and Statistics and Probability.
- Develop a three year plan for the Learning Area of Maths
-I4S funds used to replace Peer Feedback Coaches to coach teachers 207012 – Peer Feedback Professional Development $40000)
-I4S funds used to pay for teachers to attend SECC professional learning days(207012 – Peer Feedback Professional Development $40000)
-I4S funds used to purchase mathematics materials to support reading expectation/literacy learning expectations (207010 – I4S Classroom Resources $4000)