Learning Progressions

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Learning Progressions

• Red Beach School
• Hellen Healey and Andrea Smee

Red Beach School is a community empowering life
long learners who can achieve and make a
difference.
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Quotes About Learning

• The test of successful education is not the
  amount of knowledge that pupils take away from
  school, but their appetite to know and their
  capacity to learn.
• Sir Richard Livingstone 1941
• Pedagogy should at its best be about what
  teachers do that not only helps students to learn
  but actively strengthens their capacity to
  learn.
• David Hargreaves, 2004

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Purpose of the session

• To find how we produced and use progressions to
  support learning at RBS
• To see how they help move the locus of control
  towards the children
• To see how teachers have used them within the
  classroom environment to help make an OTJ

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Managing Self is an important part of the Key
Competencies and directly links to our Life Long
Learning dispositions
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Empowerment

• The use of progressions empowers our children
  so that they know
• Where they are as a Learner
• What their next learning step is
• How to get there

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Dont make learning a secret!

• John Hattie talks about best teaching practice
  being those approaches which achieve an effect
  size of above 0.4
• Such practices include having learning intentions
  and success criteria, peer tutoring, setting
  challenging goals, self reporting grades

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Progress?

• How can you set goals and report grades if you do
  not know what progress looks like and what the
  possibilities are?
• Teachers, students and parents need to have a
  common conception of what progress looks like
  exposing the information John Hattie
• The progressions we have produced bring greater
  clarity to these issues for teachers, students
  and parents

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Numeracy

• Teachers were unsure of the progression path
  within each of the number domains
• We found stages 5 to 8 of the NP too broad and
  lacking in detail
• Children found student profiles too vague and
  often did not really understand the language

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We needed a solution...
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• The Numeracy progressions were compiled using the
  Framework and the other Numeracy books
• They align with the standards as they were based
  on the framework
• Each domain is broken down into three parts from
  stage 5 onwards
• We have used Basic, Proficient and Advanced
  terminology to align with asTTle

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• Each stage shows examples of the types of
  problems encountered but with increasing
  complexity
• They have been written in child speak so the
  students can understand them and can use them to
  inform their learning and answer the 3 questions

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Domains

• Addition and Subtraction
• Multiplication and Division
• Fractions Ratios and proportions

• Addition and Subtraction
• Multiplication and Division
• Fractions Ratios and proportions

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NZ Curriculum Mathematics Standards
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Literacy

• Previously, we had had a very linear rubric
• It did not give children or teachers any real
  guidance as to how well they were progressing
  within the level or show the next learning step
• It raised huge questions with the staff

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How can we support the children so they clearly
know what their next learning step is?
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Producing the writing Progression

• Using the writing exemplars and the draft
  standards we broke down each level to create a
  progression
• Each proposed level was taken back to the
  horizontal teams for critique
• They were trialled and used to moderate work
• Through our strategic plan we are coming back to
  re-evaluate them against the National Standards

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Writing Level 2-3
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Reading

• Developed what we had already up to the end of
  the colour wheel
• Literacy leaders made the early ones into a
  progression
• Literacy Leader developed draft progressions to
  the end of Level 3
• Aligned progressions with the Literacy Learning
  Progressions and the standards.

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Critique

• Horizontal teams critiqued against the published
  documents
• Feedback/changes made
• Trialed within classes at group level
• Used to support OTJ
• Work in progress

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Reading
Green to Turquoise
8.5- 12 (1)
8.5 - 12 (2)
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Other progressions in the pipeline
Oral
Spelling
Hearts and values
Community
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So lets go and see them in action