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, including phonemic awareness, systematic synthetic phonics knowledge, fluency, comprehension, oral language, vocabulary, syntax, and text structure for the purpose of reading and writing. It will also support teachers to understand the principles of explicit and intentional teaching, including being systematic, precise, repeated and varied, cumulative, diagnostic, responsive, and the gradual release model.
This support will be available in Term 3 2024, initially focusing on year 0-3 teachers and becoming available to year 4-6 teachers during 2025.
Applications for Cohort 2 of this PLD are now open - a link to the application form is published below.
Applications close on 13 September 2024.