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• Final Thoughts

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• 1 Book in to see your Head. Hammer out the
  priorities for YOUR school and the implications
  of the new-style Strategy. Start to integrate the
  different strands and come up with a
  half-term-by-half-term action plan

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• 2 Re-think your working party. Is it time to
  re-define or disband? Should it move into an
  evaluative role, monitoring progress and
  assessing impact?

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• 3 Get students involved in the evaluation. Use
  questionnaires / focus groups to gain their
  feedback on teaching styles that work, marking,
  groupings, spelling hints Summarise the results
  to staff

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• 4 Bed ideas into the teaching teams. Your role
  is to COORDINATE, not to DO everything. Give
  advice, etc, but insist that curriculum teams run
  their own meetings on literacy issues / teaching
  styles, etc

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• 5 The basics are still important - eg
  literacy-friendly classrooms, using glossaries,
  key word lists, model answers, assessment
  criteria on display, etc

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• 6 Be prepared to adapt and simplify the
  materials as necessary - eg reduce the writing
  process to its core elements and dont worry
  about technical terms. The aim is to improve
  student learning. Taking short-cuts is fine

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• 7 Yours is a key whole-school role. Done
  properly, you will make teachers lives easier
  and students learning more successful. But dont
  kill yourself in the process. Take a rational,
  step-by-step approach

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• 8 Keep literacy issues high-profile in staff
  bulletins, displays, etc. Get 3 staff to say what
  they are doing re questions / spelling / writing
  at the next staff meeting. Give them 2 minutes
  each. Keep it light and upbeat

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• 9 Meet your literacy Governor and give an
  update. Ask the Head to talk about literacy in
  the next report for Governors (these are termly)

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• 10 Keep coming back to IMPACT. Channel all
  efforts into improving the way we help children
  to learn through language. Small steps are likely
  to make the biggest impact so be confident

and good luck!
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• SAFE JOURNEY!

All these resources are at www.geoffbarton.co.uk
and good luck!