1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Good afternoon. The government is putting money into maths, almost 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars over four years to help kids 3 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 1: who are falling behind. Education Minister Erica Stanford is with me, Hey, Erica, Hello, okay, 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:12,719 Speaker 1: So what's the money actually for. What's it going to buy? 5 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:16,799 Speaker 2: Well, there's three things, and it's really closely aligned to 6 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 2: what we do in literacy, but it has never been 7 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 2: done in maths. The first thing is to make sure 8 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 2: that we are doing a light touch, low stakes check 9 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 2: in year two in terms of a skills math skills 10 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 2: check for our very youngest learners to make sure that 11 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 2: they're on track, and when we see that they are not, 12 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 2: we're going to invest fifty six million dollars into what 13 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 2: we call Tier two. But that's just our lingo for 14 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 2: a maths intervention teacher who takes small groups to catch 15 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 2: them up with their learning. We do exactly the same 16 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 2: instructured literacy. Now we're doing it in maths. So that's 17 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 2: the second part, that's all the way up to year six, 18 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:53,480 Speaker 2: identifying those learners as early as we can to catch 19 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 2: them up, make them feel confident. And then the last 20 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 2: thing is we did a trial this year of our 21 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,080 Speaker 2: year seven and eights who haven't had the benefit of 22 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 2: all of the resource and the new curriculum and all 23 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 2: the fancy structured maths, and we did a twelve week 24 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 2: trial of intensive four times a week tutoring to catch 25 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:11,679 Speaker 2: them up with their learning. Early findings are really positive. 26 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 2: We're going to roll that out to thirty four thousand 27 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 2: students at startup next year. 28 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: Yeah, so this was the pilot that you guys announced earlier. 29 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 1: Is what is it actually found? 30 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 2: We haven't got the final results back yet, but the 31 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 2: early findings are showing that just after twenty hours worth 32 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 2: of tutoring, we're already seeing that they are accelerating their learning. 33 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 2: We're seeing that they are getting confident, that they love it, 34 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 2: that they want to be there, that the teachers are 35 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 2: saying that it's translating into the classroom where they can 36 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 2: now be involved in the whole class teaching because they 37 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 2: understand the concept. So it's been massively positive across the board. 38 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: Do the teachers feel like they were able to teach 39 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: it though, because this has been one of the complaints 40 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 1: that teachers don't feel up to teaching the. 41 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 2: Maths, Well, what we're doing is exactly what we did 42 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 2: with structured literacy, be providing kits, and we do the 43 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 2: same for structured literacy in the form of a small 44 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 2: group TEA two kit, and we'll do exactly the same 45 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 2: for mass will provide professional learning and development for those 46 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 2: interventional teachers, same as we do for literacy, and we'll 47 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 2: be providing them with a kit so that they can 48 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 2: sit in front of the students and they have all 49 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 2: of the resource that they need to catch them up 50 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 2: with their learning. That's the quite a bit of the 51 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 2: funding is for these kits and the professional learning and development, 52 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 2: not just the teachers themselves. 53 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: Erica, listen, it's weird that you guys made two social 54 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 1: media announcements in one week. Right, did you make the 55 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: announcement last Wednesday whenever it was midweek in order to 56 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 1: get ahead of the launch of that charity. 57 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 2: No. Catherine Weir has been working on that member's bill 58 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:44,359 Speaker 2: for a long time. She's done a really good job 59 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:46,640 Speaker 2: to get our caucus across the line and to get 60 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 2: the bill together. She's been working on it for a 61 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 2: really long time. It just happened that she had it 62 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 2: really had just been through caucus. She was excited to 63 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 2: get it out. She did a whole lot of work 64 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 2: and since then we have had overwhelming feedback, positive feedback 65 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 2: about it, and the government, the Prime Minister feels very 66 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 2: strongly about this and always intended that, you know, we'd 67 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 2: love to take this on as government worker. 68 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 1: Now we are okay, good stuff, Hey, Erica, Thank you 69 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: was always appreciated. Erica Stanford, Education Minister. 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