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The chatter or influence from people who are not trained teachers (Holly)

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Resourcing for students with special needs  - Michelle

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Resourcing for students with special needs  - Michelle

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Limitations of assessment criteria specially for external NCEA testing and new literacy test in secondary schools.

Definition of literacy is extremely subjective and compartmentalized.

Addressing literacy in large classrooms with limited time

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Application of skills taught. Applying sounds etc. to reading a text or spelling unknown words.

Fluency of Reading- retrieval of knowledge/ application rapidly

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not all students have access to quality ECE  before school  - Michelle

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not all students have access to quality ECE  before school  - Michelle

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Consistency across the school/ year levels of what is taught in Literacy

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Parents' expectations and preconceived notions about learning:

Sometimes they expect children to gain knowledge by 'a certain time' and compares their own experiences with what their children are experiencing

Teachers' training:

In ECE, teachers aren't specially trained to 'teach' literacy and may feel it's the primary school teachers' job to help children with literacy.

Sometimes, teachers aren't equipped with enough support as well (in terms of ratio, knowledge) to provoke children's interests in literacy

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Lack of resourcing: people, money, approaches/practices/pedagogies, time, materials (Holly)

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Socioeconomic differences

Early literacy skills

Teacher training and resources - are these adequate, especially as a BT? Keen to hear your thoughts on this :)

Acknowledgement or lack of neurodiversity

Student engagement - seems a lot harder to work for these days

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Meeting the needs of large groups.

Meeting needs of students who are significantly behind or have large gaps in their learning.

Catering to students who are working at quite advanced literacy levels and not wanting these students to lose interest in their learning.

Language barriers and resources to help aid teachers in responding to this for students with English as a second laguage.

Ensuring students and teachers have all the resources they need to learn and that they're in the right mindset to learn (motivation and drive to achieve and learn).

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Various learning needs

Class Sizes & Teacher Ratio - being able to accommodate everyone

Motivation & self esteem

Readiness to be at school (i.e. no ECE)

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Parents expectations and ideas around what Reading should look like. For example, having multiple different books in a week.

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Lack of confidence in the teaching profession from parents, politicians and teachers themselves (Holly)

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An over-crowded curriculum (Holly)

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Lack of resourcing, differences in socioeconomic status, differences in teacher training, sporadic attendance, whānau engagement, class size, teacher time, behaviour management vs teaching time - Gina 

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Lack of resourcing, differences in socioeconomic status, differences in teacher training, sporadic attendance, whānau engagement, class size, teacher time, behaviour management vs teaching time - Gina 

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Emphasis on assessment instead of learning.

Hidden curriculum skills are not taught

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The impact literacy has on other learning areas eg. understanding the written instructions in maths etc

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Change in government, change in curriculum, lack of consistency - Gina

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Change in government, change in curriculum, lack of consistency - Gina