Setting Up for Success 2026 PLD Opportunity
Setting Up for Success 2026
For Teachers in 2026:
Would you like your teachers to be able to:
1/ Identify at-risk learners and groups with ease
2/ Undertake screening and literacy assessments to identify needs
3/ Ensure that assessments drive the learning
4/ Implement new programmes and resources to reach persistent
underachievers
5/ Teach effective literacy through the year level curriculum
6/ See accelerated achievement through pre- and post-testing
7/ Differentiate teaching to meet all learner needs
8/ Teach for neurodiversity
9/ Know the science of learning and implement best practice approaches and
monitor programmes effectively?
If you answer yes to these questions, then our whole school, teacher development hour of power weekly programme in 2026 is for you.
Register all your teaching staff for 30 one-hour PLD sessions. 3.30 - 4.30 pm
across 2026.
Let's work together to make the difference for students who learn differently.
FOR TEACHER AIDES:
2026 Teacher Aide – Development Programme - Supporting At-risk Student Groups in a Mainstream Setting
At-risk Learners – Neurodiversity – Structured Literacy Practice
Suitable for Primary and Secondary – Successful 2024 and 2025 Course Revised.
Module 1 - Effective Structured Literacy Practice
Know:
● What structured literacy is
● The science of learning and what research tells us
● The key principles that underpin student success
● The elements of structured literacy
● Why the foundations are so important.
Understand:
● Pre-testing, quality teaching and post-testing
● Whole class and small group teaching using the elements.
Do:
● Implementing all the elements successfully
● Using a range of resources to teach the elements of structured literacy effectively.
Module 2 - At-risk Learners and Neurodiversity
● Understanding and identifying at-risk learners
● 32 characteristics of at-risk learners
● The multimodal approach to support
● Support philosophies/ The 7 excellences/ Dependence to independence/ accommodations/ strategies/ expectations/ the role of a teacher aide/learning assistant
● Our role in the school/ preparing effectively to maximise student achievement/ The high performing teacher aide
● Dyslexia and Dyspraxia
● ADHD
● Maths and learning difficulties
● The autistic spectrum
● Gifted with learning difficulties
● Vision and learning difficulties
● Addressing underpinning weaknesses through literacy and numeracy
● Gaining credibility for your work, reassessment and next steps, group reflections and best practice.