The Ministry is funding professional learning and development (PLD) for structured approaches to literacy and te reo matatini.
This PLD will support teachers to use structured literacy approaches including: oral language, phonemic knowledge, systematic synthetic phonics teaching and knowledge for decoding and spelling, handwriting, vocabulary, morphology, syntax, fluency, text structure, writing, and comprehension.
It will also support teachers to understand the principles of explicit teaching including: a gradual release of responsibility, being systematic, being precise, providing repeated and varied opportunities for learning, being cumulative, being diagnostic and responsive, and developing mastery and automaticity.
As part of the PLD for structured literacy approaches, teachers will learn assessment practices and how to use tools that align with these approaches to inform their teaching. Providers will ask teachers to share assessment data with them to evaluate the effectiveness of the PLD.
This support will be available from Term 3 2024, initially focusing on year 0-3 teachers and becoming available to year 4-6 and year 7-8 teachers from 2025.
Applications for Cohort 2 of this PLD are now closed.