Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The ...
Research on how kids learn to read has not always penetrated the teaching profession, though that’s generally no fault of the teachers: It’s that approaches to reading based on the mechanics of ...
A United States-based literacy expert this week provided professional development to teachers on a curriculum said to be significantly improving reading outcomes. Valentina Contesse, coauthor of the ...
The education debate in Australia has, for some time now, been marred by the presence of a simple binary: explicit teaching, or direct instruction, versus inquiry-based learning. Simply put, explicit ...
Picture this: It’s your first day as a graduate student instructor. You’re armed with a stack of syllabi, a mind full of academic theories and the unshakable feeling that you might be in way over your ...