Under this agreement for 2014
Wyandra State School will receive
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This funding will be used to
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Ensure 50% Year 3 students reach National Minimum benchmarks in Literacy in 2014
Develop Individual Learning, or Evidence Based Plans for all students at risk of not meeting NMS
Develop and track student achievements on Student Data Profiles
Improve teacher and staff capabilities, through professional development and focused feedback, to achieve improved student
outcomes
Ensure all students reach Regional Benchmarks in Literacy 2015
Our strategy will be to
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Review student data on a 2 week cycle to adjust curriculum, resources and pedagogy, maximizing focused teaching to
students needs
Hold regular professional conversations around student data (Towards a Moving School, John Fleming & Elizabeth Kleinhenz
978-086431-702-5, pp11)
Build teacher capacity through professional development in explicit teaching. (Explicit Instruction, Effective and Efficient
Teaching, Anita L. Archer, Charles, A Hughes, 'The most common responses requested in lessons at any grade level are
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Engage all students in small group and whole school oral language intervention programs (Halliday, The Language of Early
Childhood, 2003)
Develop Oral Language in students 0-5years, Prep-Year 3 (Halliday, The Language of Early Childhood, 2003)
Evidence:
'Children's oral language proficiency, as well as their phonological skills, influence the course of reading development.' (Nation,
Snowling, 2004)
Halliday, The Language of Early Childhood, 2003
Explicit Instruction, Effective and Efficient Teaching, Anita L. Archer, Charles, A Hughes, 'The most common responses requested
in lessons at any grade level are oral.'
Towards a Moving School, John Fleming & Elizabeth Kleinhenz 978-086431-702-5, pp11
Our school will improve student outcomes
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