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Battling pandemic reading woes through teacher support, training

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But Rehobeth says trained and experienced aides are key to recent success. And they’re expanding that expertise in developing a team of trained reading educators as they work on afterschool tutoring and community support. “If Six newsrooms joined together to report on the problem and find solutions for America’s reading problem.

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One Idea to Keep Teachers From Quitting — End the Teacher Time Crunch

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After somewhat predictable sections about low teacher pay and the need for better teacher-training pathways, the report includes a section on a topic so mundane it’s almost startling: “Demonstrate Respect and Value for Teacher Time.” At school you teach and support students. At home you answer emails, grade, plan, and analyze data.

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PROOF POINTS: Controversies within the science of reading

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If you teach phonemic awareness, students will learn phonemic awareness,” which isn’t the goal, said Tiffany Peltier , a learning scientist who consults on literacy training for teachers at NWEA, an assessment company. “If Teacher training programs in the science of reading emphasized the importance of phonemic awareness.

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Testimony in Favor of Texas SB 6 Instructional Materials Allotment

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Today I gave testimony in favor of the passage of Texas SB 6 , which institutes an Instructional Materials Allotment (IMA) in lieu of the textbook allotment and the former Technology Allotment. Everything I accessed was an instructional material with content relevant to my course of study. Another 37.8%

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TEACHER VOICE: Students deserve classroom experiences that reflect their history

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Here are a few ways we can do this: Improve instructional materials. Provide educators with the time and training to be culturally responsive teachers. The post TEACHER VOICE: Students deserve classroom experiences that reflect their history appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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OPINION: It’s time. Let’s use different ways of teaching children to read

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Only 53 percent of teacher education programs “provide sufficient coverage of early reading components,” the National Council on Teacher Quality found in their 2020 review of elementary teacher training programs. These more effective teacher training programs spend ample time exploring the theory and research behindthe science of reading.

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PROOF POINTS: ‘Right-to-read’ settlement spurred higher reading scores in California’s lowest performing schools, study finds

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Blue dots represent the 75 schools that were eligible for the right-to-read settlement program of training and funds. Teachers were trained in evidence-based ways of teaching reading, including an emphasis on phonics and vocabulary, and encouraged to use them. (A The newly trained teachers in the science of reading may soon quit too.

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