Spelling Mastery Toolkit
Spelling Mastery Toolkit
Enhance your school’s delivery of Spelling Mastery with our expertly designed tools, tailored to support school teams in effectively managing and delivering Spelling Mastery.
All the Spelling Mastery Tools You Need in One Place
This comprehensive suite empowers Australian school teams—including principals, instructional coaches, teachers, and teaching assistants—to consistently enhance the implementation of Spelling Mastery across the school for maximum student success.
Spelling Mastery Toolkit
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The Toolkit includes:
Coaching Schedule Spelling Mastery Template: used to plan and record the coaching program so coaches can support teachers and teaching assistants to refine their skills and confidence in delivering effective teaching.
Data Conversation Form: the instruction coach uses this form to hold weekly data conversations with teachers to discuss student progress and the challenges they face.
How to Create Classroom and School Data Walls: provides teachers and school leaders with information on how to create classroom and school data walls to track students’ progress and achievements.
Professional Learning: the instruction coach uses this professional learning template to plan and ensure teachers complete the module.
Instruction Coach Coaching Program: a program of the instruction coach’s role in supporting the principal and the teaching team to deliver effective teaching.
Lesson Practice Form: the instruction coach uses this form to coordinate practice sessions and pair up teachers who have mastered techniques and practices with less experienced teachers.
Teacher and Student Engagement Practice Form: the principal and instruction coach use this form to assess if the teacher has the required student engagement during a five-minute observation and to provide feedback.
Techniques Observation Feedback Form: the instruction coach uses this form to provide feedback to teachers to improve their effective teaching.
Weekly Classroom Data Review Report: teachers and teaching assistants use this form to record students and groups in each class each week and to note issues they will raise with the instruction coach.
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Student Progress Tool for Spelling Mastery
Record and track lessons for Spelling Mastery programs A–F, and systematically record and track:
- students’ daily attendance
- daily lesson progress with a weekly lesson summary
- an individual student’s Independent Work scoring or assessment.
School instructional leadership teams can also:
- review the completed data sheets, enhancing the ability to support teachers and students by using school-wide data sets
- identify which students or groups are meeting or exceeding standards and which students need additional support to succeed
- pinpoint which teachers may need additional support in delivering the Spelling Mastery program and in which areas.
The Teach Spelling Mastery A–F professional learning module includes a lesson on how to use the Student Progress Tool for Spelling Mastery, which can be found in the Teacher Resources lesson of the module.
Teach Spelling Mastery A–F
Develop essential skills, practices and knowledge for the effective classroom delivery of Spelling Mastery. This online, self-paced and free professional learning module covers:
- key components of the Direct Instruction Spelling Mastery program
- core instructional strategies for effectively implementing Spelling Mastery
- basic direct instruction techniques
- methods for gathering student data and using data to inform instruction.
More Great Resources to Support the Delivery of Spelling Mastery
For over a decade, Good to Great Schools Australia has helped schools improve their teaching outcomes and empower vulnerable students through Direct Instruction.
- Professional learning program modules for each Direct Instruction program.
- Professional learning practice modules for specific practices and techniques related to Direct Instruction.
- Professional learning module for delivering special education with Direct Instruction.
- Mapping of Direct Instruction programs to the Australian Curriculum.
- Supplementary materials to swap out American content for Australian, such as currency and measurements.
- Supplementary materials to top up Direct Instruction programs so they meet all requirements of the Australian Curriculum.