BC Learning Pathways is a series of resources that help teachers develop students’ important literacy and numeracy skills. Literacy and numeracy skills are the tools that people use to access information and data, make informed decisions, and communicate information or ideas.
Building strong foundations is a key responsibility of BC’s education system. Strong literacy and numeracy skills aren’t just important for K-12 or post-secondary education, they play an important role throughout every stage of life including ongoing career and personal development and lifelong learning. Kindergarten to Grade 4 elementary teachers play a crucial role in setting the foundations of reading, writing, oral language, and math skills for their students. Achieving proficiency in foundational skills is important for further learning.
Students should also be challenged to develop important critical and analytical thinking, in all learning areas and in all grade levels. In addition to having strong language and mathematics foundations, students must also develop the ability to find sources of information, evaluate the accuracy of a text, and make informed decisions based on data. In today’s world, all graduates should be equipped with the thinking skills needed to synthesize and respond to abundant sources of information and misinformation.
BC Learning Pathways brings foundational and critical thinking skills together through a comprehensive approach to literacy and numeracy. BC Learning Pathways supports the development of foundational English Language Arts and Mathematics skills, as well as cross-curricular literacy and numeracy thinking and communication skills. Working with teams of BC teachers, the Ministry of Education and Child Care has developed the following resources to help teachers develop these skills in their classroom:
K-4 Foundations in Reading, Writing, Oral Language and Math
- K-4 English Language Arts Foundational Learning Progressions
- K-4 Math Foundational Learning Progressions
Proficiency Profiles
K-12 Cross Curricular Resources in Literacy and Numeracy