Phonics International

[debbie]

http://www.ucet.ac.uk/3387

I was very pleased to have the document (link on this page) which clearly shows that Universities in England need to take the training of student-teachers in 'systematic synthetic phonics' extremely seriously.

See the pdf: UCET advice on systematic synthetic phonics and ITT

Surveying the student-teachers themselves is one way of ascertaining quality of training and effectiveness.

One concern might be, however, that student-teachers themselves don't know what they don't know - so I wouldn't want to evaluate quality of student-teacher training on this premise alone but would want to see first hand what lecturers are imparting!

Nevertheless - encouraging progress indeed!
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Debbie Hepplewhite

[debbie]

http://rrf.org.uk/messageforum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5012&sid=35ae98401db2424ef24223d4896e7811

Susan Godsland makes an important point about the 'reading lists' of the teacher-training universities - what is the content of the literature that is recommended for student-teachers to read?
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Debbie Hepplewhite