1. Learning Progressions
Red Beach School
Hellen Healey and Andrea Smee
Red Beach School is a community empowering life long learners who can achieve and make a difference.

2. Quotes About Learning
“The test of successful education is not the amount of knowledge that pupils take away from school, but their appetite to know and their capacity to learn.”
Sir Richard Livingstone 1941
“Pedagogy should at its best be about what teachers do that not only helps students to learn but actively strengthens their capacity to learn.”
David Hargreaves, 2004

3. Purpose of the session
To find how we produced and use progressions to support learning at RBS
To see how they help move the locus of control towards the children
To see how teachers have used them within the classroom environment to help make an OTJ

4. Managing Self is an important part of the Key Competencies and directly links to our Life Long Learning dispositions

5. Empowerment Where they are as a Learner
The use of progressions empowers our children so that they know:
Where they are as a Learner
What their next learning step is
How to get there

6. Don’t make learning a secret!
John Hattie – talks about best teaching practice being those approaches which achieve an effect size of above 0.4
Such practices include having learning intentions and success criteria, peer tutoring, setting challenging goals, self reporting grades

7. Progress?
How can you set goals and report grades if you do not know what progress looks like and what the possibilities are?
Teachers, students and parents need to have a common conception of what progress looks like – “exposing the information” John Hattie
The progressions we have produced bring greater clarity to these issues for teachers, students and parents

8. Numeracy
Teachers were unsure of the progression path within each of the number domains
We found stages 5 to 8 of the NP too broad and lacking in detail
Children found student profiles too vague and often did not really understand the language

9. We needed a solution...

10. The Numeracy progressions were compiled using the Framework and the other Numeracy books
They align with the standards as they were based on the framework
Each domain is broken down into three parts from stage 5 onwards
We have used Basic, Proficient and Advanced terminology to align with asTTle

11. Each stage shows examples of the types of problems encountered but with increasing complexity
They have been written in child speak so the students can understand them and can use them to inform their learning and answer the 3 questions

12. Domains Addition and Subtraction Addition and Subtraction
Multiplication and Division
Fractions Ratios and proportions
Addition and Subtraction
Multiplication and Division
Fractions Ratios and proportions

14. NZ Curriculum Mathematics Standards

15. Literacy Previously, we had had a very linear rubric
It did not give children or teachers any real guidance as to how well they were progressing within the level or show the next learning step
It raised huge questions with the staff…

16. How can we support the children so they clearly know what their next learning step is?

17. Producing the writing Progression
Using the writing exemplars and the draft standards we broke down each level to create a progression
Each proposed level was taken back to the horizontal teams for critique
They were trialled and used to moderate work
Through our strategic plan we are coming back to re-evaluate them against the National Standards

18. Writing Level 2-3

19. Reading
Developed what we had already up to the end of the colour wheel
Literacy leaders made the early ones into a progression
Literacy Leader developed draft progressions to the end of Level 3
Aligned progressions with the Literacy Learning Progressions and the standards.

20. Critique Horizontal teams critiqued against the published documents
Feedback/changes made
Trialed within classes at group level
Used to support OTJ
Work in progress

21. Reading
Green to Turquoise
(1)
(2)

22. Other progressions in the pipeline
Oral
Spelling
Hearts and values
Community

23. So lets go and see them in action…