MoE Targeted and Tailored PLD 2025 and 2026

Our PLD

• Builds teacher capability to implement evidence-informed structured literacy approaches aligned with the English learning area (ELA).

• Is designed to meet the needs of students with literacy and language learning difficulties, including dyslexia.

• Supports teachers to plan and deliver explicit, targeted and tailored instruction that accelerates student progress in developing reading and writing skills.

 

Fundamental to our approach is fostering the leadership capabilities of teachers to ensure sustainability and grow expertise across the school. We recognise the importance of ensuring sustainable change in practice by supporting school leaders to build in-school capability to continue to lead change. On-site visits will include meetings with school leaders to continue to ensure support of targeted and tailored teaching.

 

Our Training

1. Initial online meeting to meet and connect.

2. Face-to-face and online training: Five days of training delivered by approved facilitators.

3. Online CoPs: Eight focused one-hour sessions to build on previous learning and strengthen understanding of key concepts and strategies.

4. Coaching connections: Three online one-to-one coaching sessions providing personalised, evidence-informed feedback, fostering reflective practice and guiding participants to sustainable goal setting, learning and professional development.

5. Onsite visits: Two onsite visits. Facilitators will meet with each teacher in a mentoring capacity and meet with school leaders to ensure sustainable change and growth in practice is embedded for a targeted and tailored approach to literacy. On-site visits will be designed to support teachers via observation, modelling, and review of intervention progress and goals.

 

Our Supporting Resources

A comprehensive range of resources have been designed to support participants’ professional growth and development. These include:

1. A course text that summarises the key instructional components that comprise the PLD.

2. Online learning environment housing a range of easily accessible resources (content and practice) to support the professional learning of teachers. The online environment provides the capacity to host online CoPs and coaching sessions, as well as providing a forum for communication and feedback. This provides teachers with clear opportunities to share their learning and ask questions.

3. Gold-standard assessments, including a battery of measures from the Woodcock Johnson-IV, known as the Student Intervention Planning Survey (SIPS).

4. A selection of robust evidence-based reading designed to further teachers’ understandings of targeted and tailored literacy instruction.

5. A Teacher kit of manipulatives to support targeted and tailored teaching with a structured literacy approach.