A podcast interview with Professor Pamela Snow highlights New Zealand's emerging leadership in structured literacy education, emphasizing evidence-based teaching methods, teacher training improvements, and the importance of avoiding parental blame in reading achievement.
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Absolutely. Well, yes and no. Individual teachers will be seeing big changes already, but the stumbling block here is that many of the measurement tools that are in place now, the progress monitoring tools are of much higher quality. than the tools that were in use previously. So we're going to be comparing apples and oranges if we're looking at trying to get a data lens on this. But I know, and I've spoken to New Zealand teachers about this, they are saying that they are amazed in many cases at what five and six-year-olds can actually do when they experience high quality explicit teaching, which unfortunately in many cases they were not experiencing. what experiencing. Teachers had the very best of intentions, but they weren't using the sharpest tools in the toolkit.
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current tools are outdated and create misleading comparisons
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