This afternoon I wrote some notes on my work as Literacy Coordinator at a regional P-12 school and thought there seems to be a lot of things the job requires me to do. In the interests of sharing the information I've listed the role below.
Literacy Coordinator P-12
Literacy Coordinator P-12
Key Role: to lead, coordinate and monitor teachers, students and programs in Literacy Education P-12 in accordance with MEC Strategic Plan. The purpose is to ensure that literacy improvement is a continual focus, so all students can achieve and all teachers can teach to high standards.
Responsible to: Principal Role:
- Coordinate literacy across the school as a key leadership position
- Research best practice; use evidence based teaching to identify priorities for development
- Develop, review, revise and implement with school staff, a 2-4 year Literacy Plan
- Review and manage multiple sources of data. Use data to direct teaching and learning resources.
- Give feedback to show positive, static and negative change
- Promote and model best teaching and learning literacy practice across the school
- Assist domain areas to develop effective strategies and resources for improving literacy
- Facilitate classroom observation
- Coach teachers to use evidence based teaching practices in literacy
- Contribute to Regional and Network Literacy Coordinator workshops
- Present the Regional Modules to staff
- Provide Professional Learning to enhance quality literacy practices across all domains
- Liaise with other Literacy Coordinators in the Network and across Networks
- Use the Network Literacy Improvement Officer (NLIO) as a resource to assist with all aspects of Literacy Improvement in the school
- Be the point of contact for the NLIO to distribute information and resources to staff
- Oversee classroom literacy programs
- Promote literacy in the school and school community
- Work with year level teachers to plan, monitor and resource literacy programs
