Components of a comprehensive teaching programme - English

Explicit teaching
What is explicit teaching?

• Teaching that follows a script.

• A sequenced approach to teaching.

• A structured, carefully sequenced approach to teaching.

• A one-size-fits-all approach for all students

Answer explanation

Explicit teaching is a structured, carefully sequenced approach to teaching. The sequencing of content is thought out and broken down into manageable steps, each of which is clearly and concisely explained and modelled by the teacher.

Explicit teaching
Explicit teaching requires:

• teacher-student interaction

• guided student practice

• independent practice

• discovery learning

Answer explanation

Explicit teaching requires a high level of teacher-student interaction, guided student practice, and, when proficiency is achieved, independent practice.

Explicit teaching
Explicit teaching supports __________ learning.

Answer explanation

Explicit teaching supports cumulative learning as new knowledge is built on what students already know.

Structured literacy approaches

Structured literacy approaches support students to:

• develop strong literacy foundations

• use a variety of cues to decode

• manage cognitive load

• memorise whole words

Answer explanation

Structured literacy approaches support students to develop strong literacy foundations in a way that maximises their progress and manages the cognitive load inherent in learning.

Structured literacy approaches

Systematically and explicitly teaching SLAs to ______ learners strengthens understanding, helps manage cognitive load, and maximises progress.

Answer explanation

Systematically and explicitly teaching these elements to novice learners strengthens their understanding, helps to manage their cognitive load, and maximises their progress in acquiring literacy.

Inclusive teaching and learning:
Teachers create welcoming, responsive, and inclusive environments that nurture student...

• learning

• identities

• languages

• cultures

Answer explanation

Awareness that students vary in their strengths and needs helps teachers create welcoming, responsive, and inclusive environments that nurture students’ learning, identities, languages, and cultures.

Inclusive teaching and learning

Te Tūapapa o He Pikorua is an inclusive learning framework.

• True
• False

Answer explanation

Inclusive frameworks like Te Tūāpapa o He Pikorua, integrate flexible supports into day-to-day teaching and learning.

Inclusive teaching and learning
How can kaiako provide equitable access to language and literacy learning?

• Explicitly teaching essential knowledge and skills

• allow students to participate in a range of ways.

• Address barriers to learning

• create environments that acknowledge and address the needs and strengths of all students

Answer explanation

Because students engage with learning, process information, and demonstrate knowledge in diverse ways, teachers design experiences that allow students to participate in a range of ways.

They enable teachers to create environments that acknowledge and address the needs and strengths of all students.

Explicitly teaching essential knowledge and skills and addressing barriers to learning provides equitable access to language and literacy learning.

Developing positive identities as communicators, readers, and writers

Teachers can help to manage students’ anxiety about their learning by helping them to understand that...

• Literacy development is dynamic and non-linear.

• Literacy learning may include periods of rapid improvement.

• Literacy learning may include periods of revisiting and refining skills.

• Literacy development follows an even, sequential progression of learning.

Answer explanation

If students feel anxious, they have fewer cognitive resources available for learning.

Teachers can help to manage students’ anxiety about their learning by helping them to understand that:

- literacy development is dynamic and non-linear

• - literacy learning may include periods of rapid improvement

• - literacy learning may include revisiting and refining skills

• It does not always follow an even, sequential progression of learning.

Developing positive identities as communicators, readers, and writers

Students develop positive identities as communicators, readers, and writers when they explore texts that reflect their...

• identities

• cultures

• interests

• preferences

Answer explanation

Students develop positive identities as communicators, readers, and writers by recognising and valuing the use of literacy in their lives. This is enhanced when they explore texts that reflect their identities, cultures, interests, and preferences, and especially when they choose what they read and write.