Creative+pathways+to+literacy

Creative Pathways to Literacy
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//__Introduction__//

In 2008 and 2009, the Brotherhood of St Laurence, Berry Street, the Victorian Foundation for the Survivors of Torture, The Victorian College of the Arts and Sunshine Primary School will participate in the Creative Pathways to Literacy Program. Dr Maureen O'Rourke of EdPartnerships International will be the Program Director.

This program creates opportunities for young people living in low socioeconomic areas and attending government schools to engage in creative learning pathways that recognise and calue the strengths and contributions of all students and opend new doors to learning. The program hopes to identify viable frameworks of practice (that are both economical and highly effective) and to gather reliable qualitative and quantative measures of achievment.

Creative Pathways will be aligned the the current Victoriam Blueprint for Education and the 3 strands of the Victorian Essential Learning Standards.  **
 * Physical, personal and social learning
 * Discipline-based learning
 * Interdisciplinary Learning

__//Goals and Objectives//__ The Overall Goal of the Creative Partnership is to : //"retain and improve the performance of students from less advantaged backgrounds by providing access to creative and multiliterate learning experiences"//

This program links the development of creativity and language/literacy development in a multiliteracies framework. Students need a balanced approach to learning that cycles through all four dimensions of learning for leteracy development, as follows :
 * 1) Relational
 * 2) Foundational
 * 3) Reflective
 * 4) Creative

__//The Activity/Project//__

Sunshine Primary School Teachers
 * 1) Laban Toose
 * 2) Kathy Winton
 * 3) Rebecca Mattiacci

and an Industry Professional ( Gretta James - Movie Maker ) will engage in a movie making project on a weekly basis during 2008 and 2009.

This Project will invlode the development of multiliteracy skills through moviemaking. Students will learn about all aspects of the moviemaking process including script writing, storyboarding, vidoe recording techniques, and the editing/publishing process.

Students will also develop a variety of literacy skills that will arise from the movie making process. This will include, personal Learning reflections in the form of journals in Digital, Audio and Written Formats. Proceedural Texts in the form of digital, audio and written formats, and Creative expression in the form of scripts.

Finally all materials in all forms that are created as a part of this project will be published to a "Webupedia" wiki that will be made available to the project partners, and school community so that the project can be sustained beyond 2009. This wiki will provide examples, reflections and proceedural texts designed to allow other students and teachers to continue the project throughout the school.