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to provide teachers with information about numeracy demands across the curriculum, |
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to develop teacher's skills in recognising numeracy demands in their classroom and their curriculum, |
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to support the school to make judgements about the extent to which numeracy requires action and where that action should be directed |
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to extend teachers' knowledge of the strategies required to develop their students' numeracy. |
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What
is numeracy and numerate behaviour? |
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What
is the school doing with regard to numeracy? |
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How
well are our students developing numerate behaviour? |
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Is
this good enough? |
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Steps
involved in a Numeracy Audit |
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A comprehensive audit would include a number of the following tasks and requires someone or a small team to be trained in conducting the review: |
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Find out staff and students' views on numeracy. |
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Collect and analyse school and curriculum documents for how numeracy is described. |
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Teachers review their own curriculum documents for numeracy references. |
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Collect examples of what actually happens in the classroom. |
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Discuss
and identify issues that arise from reviewing the information collected. |
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Professional
development (such as that described by The
Numeracy
Research
Circle) in numeracy
and research skills. |
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The Numeracy Audit: An Overview PDF Format |
Copyright
John Hogan 2002. |
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