Sentences with phrase «numeracy skills gaps»

Teacher speaks to Neil Lloyd, deputy principal of Brisbane's Youth Education and Training Centre, about the school's efforts to address literacy and numeracy skills gaps among students.

First off, here's Neil Lloyd from Brisbane's Youth Education and Training Centre, talking about the starting point for school improvement in relation to students» literacy and numeracy skills gaps.

This school discusses its efforts to adress literacy and numeracy skills gaps amongst students.

In this episode, I speak to Neil Lloyd, deputy principal of Brisbane's Youth Education and Training Centre, about the school's efforts to address literacy and numeracy skills gaps among students.

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In particular, it identified gaps in assessment of phonics skills and a lack of an early years numeracy assessment covering all numeracy descriptors in the Australian Curriculum.

We're looking at their literacy skills, reading skills, their writing skills, their numeracy skills, and then for each student we then develop a skills gap plan...

We were lucky enough to get an eLearning Grant at the end of 2012 which gave us some sort of impetus to do a lot of the work in terms of development of the literacy and numeracy curriculum, but a lot of the other work has been ongoing in terms of developing the skills gap plans and developing some of the work around what that framework looks like and the assessment procedures that sit in and around that - so the frequency at which we're testing.

Steps along the way have included: The problem with levels - gaps in basic numeracy skills identified by rigorous diagnostic testing, Forgetting is necessary for learning, desirable difficulties and the need to dissociate learning and performance, Going SOLO on the journey towards deep learning, How do we make John Hattie's «Visible Learning» work in maths?

-LSB-...] problem with levels - gaps in basic numeracy skills identified by rigorous diagnostic testing, Forgetting is necessary for learning, desirable difficulties and the need to dissociate learning and..., Going SOLO on the journey towards deep learning, How do we make John Hattie's «Visible -LSB-...]

Research has shown that over two years, this evidence - based approach to individualized instruction can take children who are starting out significantly behind their more advantaged peers and develop their language, literacy, numeracy and social - emotional skills where they are measuring above the mean, which is effectively closing the achievement gap.

Studies consistently suggest that exposure to trauma or chronic early life stress may impair the development of executive function skills.6, 7,9,10,11 These skills appear to provide the foundation for school readiness through cognition and behaviour.3, 12 Children with better executive function skills may be more teachable.3 Indeed, in a high - risk sample, children with better executive function skills at the beginning of kindergarten showed greater gains in literacy and numeracy than children with poorer initial skills.12 Considering there is evidence that the achievement gap persists and may even widen across the school years, 16,17 it is critical that high - risk children begin school with as successful of a start as possible.