Pre-boxed intervention programmes – Jackie Connell

                                                                    

Below is a Tweet asking an excellent question and a reply that is equally good. It is like many other such tweets where the twitter says he/she is serious but never replies once I have tweeted in response.

Jackie Connell @jackielconnell Aug 30

Why is our education system so deeply committed to pre-boxed intervention programs? Models almost exclusively designed by people who do not represent the learners or communities they are intended to support. Legitimate question. Not rhetorical. Please answer.

Angelina Gerard @awolgerard Aug 30

You have to consider, that most educators are people who enjoyed & did well in school, so most see education through the lens they experienced, making it challenging to consider approaches they never needed or experienced, taking the creativity out of the problem solving process.

This is exactly what I have been harping on for many years.

Right to read project (Part 2)

This is a continuation of my post yesterday.

Here are further extracts from the article and my comments.

 

"When educators understand how the brain learns to read we are compelled to reexamine our previous beliefs about why students struggle."

The endless war Jennifer Buckingham vs Jeffrey Bowers

                                           

                                                                 当局者迷，旁观者清

The following is extracted from Dr. Jennifer Buckingham’s Blog post. There has been a debate going on between Jennifer and Jeffrey.

Why many kids shut down from learning to read

Yesterday I realised that two of my YouTube videos produced to explain why many kids disengage from learning to read are not easily accessed by interested parents.

I urge parents with kids who have shown a disinterest in learning to read in English to listen to the videos below. 

Preposterous idea - Dr.Robert Slavin blog post Part 2

Here is an email I wrote to Dr. Robert Slavin on 28.3.2020 when there was no response to my comment on his blog post - ‘Science of Reading: Can We Get Beyond Our 30-Year Pillar Fight?’

Stephen Parker - Phonics proponent Part 2

I know Stephen Parker is teaching phonics accurately. If phonics is taught the way he does then for sure there will be no kid disengaging from learning to read.

My tweets to and from Emily Hanford

Emily Hanford is a Senior Producer and Correspondent at APM (American Public Media).

Let me state at the onset that I have nothing against Emily and I am not a fan of anyone either.

Dyslexia – How NOT to teach letter sounds

                                                       

How would you pronounce the following word?

‘Cuhohtuh’

Can you recognize that word? It is an English word given to us by Liz Dunnon. You can hear it in a YouTube video here: (You can hear it under skill 2 between minutes 1.48 and 3.05 in the video.) LINK