Facilitator in-service
Teachers are the focus
The Literate Futures: Reading, Learning and Development Model is designed to be flexible, multimodal and needs-based. It acknowledges the range and diversity of teachers' entry knowledge about reading, and their experiences with, and attitudes toward, technology. The highly flexible, multimodal, needs-based delivery aims to bridge the gap between ongoing use of the old familiar models of professional development, and the use of new and more efficient technologies for teaching, learning and development.
Action leads to reform
The use of literacy facilitators will ensure some consistency of philosophy and theory, demonstrate the integration of theory and practice in authentic contexts, promote interaction and intellectual challenge, and scaffold teachers in the use of the technology. Through this personal training and involvement, teachers' attitudes are more likely to be positive, their technological skills enhanced, and their knowledge of future literacies improved. Literacy facilitators will also assist schools and their staffs in identifying their professional development needs, and in planning a flexible, needs-based, multimodal program. In fulfilling these aims, literacy facilitators will be creating and promoting self-sustaining communities of learners. Initially, LDC (Literacy) Coordinators will be the trained facilitators and users of the package; they will then assist in the on-training of literacy facilitators for individual schools, clusters or other groups.
Learning is a key to support enhanced action
Literacy facilitators will assist teachers in actively constructing meaning of the knowledge and skills identified as appropriate to their personal and professional needs, and to their school's and community's requirements. Coaching, mentoring, and substantive conversations are key processes of the work of the literacy facilitators.
Teachers learn in professional learning communities
Teachers share responsibility and critically reflect on their practices through an action learning approach. LDCs (Literacy) will continue to provide support for learning and development, and for sustaining such learning communities.
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