The Tutor Learning Initiative (TLI) is designed to support students who are below, or at risk of falling below the National Minimum Standards (NMS) in Literacy and Numeracy.
Students are identified for the TLI program through regular analysis of achievement data, including NAPLAN results, as well as being identified by their teachers as benefitting from receiving additional support.
At Ashburton Primary School, the Tutor Learning Initiative (TLI) delivers targeted small group learning support of no more than six students per group. Students enter the program with specific goals relating to their current performance in English and/or Mathematics determined by their teachers and the tutor. This often aligns with their needs within the classroom.
The groupings of students are flexible and therefore students move in and out of the program based on their needs.
The Tutor Learning initiative classes are fun, interactive lessons where students develop fundamental literacy and numeracy skills. This includes focuses on:
- Building phonics knowledge and decoding strategies
- Developing fluency and comprehension skills
- Responding to texts
- Developing place value knowledge and understanding
- Consolidating strategies and fluency with number operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)
- Other fundamental numeracy skills, as determined by data