Literacy and numeracy pathways
Professional Learning pathways support schools’ priorities in literacy and numeracy according to the needs of teachers and students.
Purpose
The Professional Learning pathways display an overview of literacy and numeracy professional learning and resources available to support schools.
There are 5 primary pathways and one secondary pathway currently available with more to be added throughout 2025.
Primary
Primary pathways provide a recommended order for engagement and scenarios with examples of how you can tailor a pathway to suit individual contexts.
Literacy
Effective reading
This pathway shows the integration between the the department’s ‘Effective reading’ suite of professional learning, reading resources and assessments. The scenarios provide an example of how the the ‘Effective reading’ professional learning and complementary resources could be sequenced in a pathway, aligned to a school’s identified focus area.
Focus on creating texts
This pathway shows the integration between the department’s writing, vocabulary, and spelling professional learning and related resources. The scenarios provide an example of how the focus on creating texts professional learning and complementary resources could be sequenced in a pathway, aligned to a school’s identified focus area.
Focus on understanding texts
This pathway shows the integration between the department’s reading, vocabulary, and fluency professional learning and related resources. The scenarios provide an example of how the focus on understanding texts professional learning and complementary resources could be sequenced in a pathway, aligned to a school’s identified focus area.
Numeracy
Number and place value
The pathway provides a snapshot of the professional learning available for number and place value including how it integrates with resources and the Interview for Student Reasoning (IfSR) assessment suite. The scenario provides an example of how numeracy professional learning and complementary resources could be sequenced in a pathway, aligned to a school’s identified focus area.
Operational sense
The pathway provides a snapshot of the professional learning available for operational sense and how it integrates with resources and the Interview for Student Reasoning (IfSR) assessment suite. The scenarios provide an example of how numeracy professional learning and complementary resources could be sequenced in a pathway, aligned to a school’s identified focus area.
Secondary
The secondary pathway has 3 components:
Leader professional learning
Whole school professional learning
Focused professional learning
The Learn Do Reflect cycle provides a framework for the effective application of learning into classroom practice.
Numeracy
Secondary professional learning pathways - numeracy
The numeracy pathway builds upon the professional learning completed during the whole school professional learning phase to support teachers of Years 7 to 12 with targeted numeracy professional learning opportunities.
The pathway includes 3 specific numeracy focus areas: Statistics and probability; Measurement and geometry and Number sense and algebra.
A specialised professional learning section highlights Numeracy for EAL/D learners and Supporting the HSC minimum standard.