Literacy Learning Progessions - Meeting the Reading and Writing Demands of the Curriculum

Posted January 23rd, 2008 by nathan

LITERACY LEARNING PROGRESSIONS FEEDBACK FORM

Please provide your feedback by 30 November 2008.

Question 1

Other::

What is your school decile?:

Please indicate the specific year level(s) you are most interested in:

Please indicate any specialist area(s) you teach:

Question 2

Are you completing this feedback form:

as an individual (please specify, e.g., teacher, principal, academic)?

on behalf of a group?

If you are completing this on behalf of a group, please describe the type of group and the number of members who have contributed to your response:

Question 3

What is your response to the overall intent and direction of this document? (Please tick one choice per line)

It is a professional tool that will help teachers improve outcomes for students:

It will better identify students at risk and highlight the need to intervene and increase the urgency for action:

It will help teachers to better understand the literacy demands of texts and tasks in different curriculum areas:

It will reinforce the need for teachers at every level to be aware of the literacy knowledge and skills that students require to make progress in learning:

It will help teachers to tailor their literacy teaching:

It complements other Ministry of Education documents:

Question 4

How appropriate are the descriptions of knowledge and skills in the progressions? Please tick one choice for all lines that apply to your teaching and make comments below

At school entry:

Very appropriate

Quite appropriate

Not very appropriate

Not at all appropriate

After 6 months:

Very appropriate

Quite appropriate

Not very appropriate

Not at all appropriate

After 1 year:

Very appropriate

Quite appropriate

Not very appropriate

Not at all appropriate

After 2 years:

Very appropriate

Quite appropriate

Not very appropriate

Not at all appropriate

After 3 years:

Very appropriate

Quite appropriate

Not very appropriate

Not at all appropriate

End of year 4:

Very appropriate

Quite appropriate

Not very appropriate

Not at all appropriate

End of year 6:

Very appropriate

Quite appropriate

Not very appropriate

Not at all appropriate

End of year 8:

Very appropriate

Quite appropriate

Not very appropriate

Not at all appropriate

End of year 10:

Very appropriate

Quite appropriate

Not very appropriate

Not at all appropriate

Comments:

Additional comments about the usefulness of the progressions (for example, the amount of specificity, the exemplification used):

Question 5

What (if any) challenges do you think schools and teachers will face as they try to align their current expectations for students' reading and writing achievement with those described in these progressions? (Please comment on any challenges and tick a choice for each challenge you describe)

Challenge 1:

Major

Moderate

Minor

Challenge 2:

Major

Moderate

Minor

Challenge 3:

Major

Moderate

Minor

Challenge 4:

Major

Moderate

Minor

Question 6

How will you/your school use these progressions?:

Question 7

Considering the document as a whole, how easy of difficult did you find it to read and understand?:

Very easy

Quite easy

Quite difficult

Very difficult

Are there any words or terms that should be added to the glossary? Please list:

Are there any other comments you would like to make?: