Literacy Toolkit

1. Literacy Toolkit The Literacy Hub Introduction • Highland Literacy Strategy • All teachers should: • Promote the fundamental importance of literacy to learners at all stages of their lives. • Ensure that quality time is given to the teaching and learning of core skills in literacy. • Ensure that staff provide learners over time with a balance of literacy activities in reading, writing, talking and listening. • Ensure that staff agree at least one literacy success criterion with learners for each learning activity and that feedback concentrates on that criterion/those criteria. • The Literacy Hub is a vehicle for helping us to achieve these.

2. Literacy Toolkit The Literacy Hub Introduction • Agenda • Background • Voice on the table • The Hub Concept, Outcomes, Success Criteria, Evaluation • Personal Action Planning • Summary of Learning

3. Literacy Toolkit The Literacy Hub Introduction Voice on the table In a maximum of 30 seconds, describe something that happened in your class where a learner achieved something which would have been worthy of sharing with a wider audience.

4. Literacy Toolkit The Literacy Hub Introduction • The Concept • A centre for on-line publishing and broadcasting of ‘texts’ produced by learners • Texts are assessment evidence from courses across the curriculum • Learners where possible use their own technology • Core editing group of learners from Secondary and/or Primary with support from teachers or a course time-tabled in the BGE curriculum • Staff and pupils receive training from the National Union of Journalists to establish and run the Hub.

5. Literacy Toolkit The Literacy Hub Introduction • Outcomes for learners • Improved motivation • Improved literacy skills • Improved IT skills • Improved staff awareness of language across the curriculum

6. Literacy Toolkit The Literacy Hub Introduction • Success Criteria • The project will be successful when learners demonstrate: • improving reading, writing and talking/listening skills • improving IT skills • increasing use of IT to engage with texts and to produce texts in school, at home and in the community • increasing use - across the curriculum - of extended writing and talking as evidence of achievement • other criteria to be identified as appropriate by the school/ASG.

7. Literacy Toolkit The Literacy Hub Introduction • Evaluation • The Literacy Hub initiative will be evaluated through baseline and progressive use of: • Data - Summary of Progress and Performance and Assessment for Excellence data for Reading (P7 and/or S2) • Sampling of Portfolio and Profiling evidence for Writing and Talking/Listening • Questionnaire and focus groups of learner and staff attitudes and IT use • Audit of assessment practice across the curriculum.

8. Literacy Toolkit The Literacy Hub Introduction Personal Action Planning Before the next meeting, look for opportunities to refine your thinking about The Literacy Hub. Choose one or two elements that you are going to explore further. Bring back your findings to the next session

9. The Literacy Hub Introduction Literacy Toolkit Summary of Learning Write your name on the card or post-it and how you now feel about The Literacy Hub and its possible effects on learning. Leave your card or post-it on your way out.