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Literacy and Numeracy: Towards More Effective Teaching Practice

Strengthening the literacy and numeracy components of teaching practice is fundamental to raising the achievement of all students. Teaching practice can be described as truly effective when it leads to positive outcomes for all students.

Recent research has highlighted the paths that lead to positive student outcomes. These paths include:

  • lifting teachers' expectations of student achievement;
  • developing strong learning communities in schools;
  • regularly using valid assessment data to inform practice;
  • supporting principals in leading learning;
  • facilitating highly effective teacher practice in every teaching and learning setting.

Index

The Literacy Strategy: Two of the success stories
Shifts in teacher practice
Support for teaching English as a second or additional language
A timeline of developments in literacy and numeracy
A network of literacy support
Building on gains made in the Numeracy Project
Literacy and numeracy resources to support effective teaching
Supportive settings for effective teaching practice
References

Effective teachers have expectations that children can achieve academic progress and believe that they can be effective in helping [them] to do this.

Picking up the Pace: A Summary

The schools that are most successful in sustaining high levels of achievement are those whose teachers base their teaching methods on student achievement information.

Shifting the Focus: Achievement Information for Professional Learning

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