SLA PLD for Targeted Teaching to support the Year 0-6 Staffing Entitlement Teachers

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Information on targeted SLA PLD

The Ministry is funding professional learning and development (PLD) to support targeted teaching by Year 0-6 staffing entitlement teachers.

This PLD will help teachers develop deep expertise in structured literacy approach (SLA) elements and effective, targeted teaching. It will also further support the application of explicit teaching principles. Schools receiving this staffing entitlement are now eligible to enrol all staff members who are in the SLA staffing resource role and already have an understanding of SLA, in this PLD.

As part of the Targeted SLA PLD, teachers will learn assessment practices and how to use tools to monitor progress.

The PLD includes targeted teaching for students with dyslexia and other literacy and language learning difficulties.

Additionally, this PLD will support participants in leading sustainable changes in teaching practices and building in-school capability.

The support became available in Term 2 2025 and focusses on schools that receive a staffing entitlement for Year 0-6 literacy support.

The Ministry will be contacting eligible schools directly to inform them of this opportunity and how to enrol.

Eligibility criteria

Schools that receive a staffing entitlement for Year 0-6 literacy support can apply for any staff member that holds the SLA staffing resource role to attend this PLD, with the next cohort starting in Term 4 2025.

As they already receive a staffing entitlement there is no further release time as part of this PLD package.

Structure of the PLD

This PLD will be offered through providers who have been quality-assured by the Ministry.

The PLD will be delivered over four school terms and comprises the following:

Core delivery: 5 full day facilitated workshops per teacher

Ongoing coaching and mentoring (over 4 terms)

Specific targeted content for all elements of SLA as outlined in the English Learning Area

The PLD may involve face-to-face and/or virtual/remote learning and will run in cohorts. While individual providers will offer different dates for delivery, dates for upcoming cohorts are:

Cohort	Begins	Ends
Cohort 3	Term 4, 2025	Term 3, 2026
Cohort 4	Term 1, 2026	Term 4, 2026
Cohort 5	Term 2, 2026	Term 1, 2027

Expectations of schools and teachers who engage in the PLD

Please note that to evaluate the effectiveness of this PLD, facilitators will be collecting information from teachers. All teachers completing this PLD will need to:

Collect impact assessment data with help from your PLD facilitator/s
Complete pre-PLD, post-workshop, and post-PLD teacher surveys

Any information given will remain anonymous and be aggregated and used to assess the overall impact of this PLD.

Funding and how to access the PLD

The Ministry will be contacting eligible schools directly with information about this opportunity and asking them to enrol with a preferred provider. If you receive a staffing entitlement for Year 0-2 literacy support and would like to enrol a staff member from your school, please follow the link to your preferred provider below and enrol with them directly.

Eligible schools can enrol any teacher from their school who holds the SLA staffing resource role to participate in the PLD.

PLD costs will be paid directly to the provider by the Ministry of Education.

No Teacher Release Days will be funded for this PLD.

Approved providers

We currently have six PLD providers approved to deliver this PLD. More information about the PLD they offer and how to enrol with them can be found at the below links: