Reading and Spelling S.O.S

It’s a shame a portion of educators did not find resources to learn more beyond work training. Every educator can get FREE training beyond basic work training from the Cox Campus!

Let’s make sure future educators know about audio books , podcasts, YouTube’s, education websites and free resources from the library.

The WETA has remarkable free resources far beyond work training :

https://weta.org/education/readytolearn/learningresources

Let’s make sure future educators know how to find resources on the Internet. The Google search bar is 28 years old.

Many concerned educators have joined professional groups for the past 76 years like International Dyslexia Association, WPS - Western Psychological Services, Learning Ally.

Any school staff person can find 63 years of public news from the Learning Disabilities Association of America

The tax payers are funding the benefits and salaries of the educators with the expectation they know how to teach literacy as well as do their own lifelong learning said New Zealand.

A number of agencies are working to change the professional licensure standards to create greater accountability because blind trust has not worked out said Australia.

 The Canadian Pediatric Society has reported how low literacy has had a negative impact on the Wellbeing and the life outcomes of the children.

Each USA state is taking action to change licensure laws and make sure educators know how to update their knowledge beyond work training. Go here to learn more:

https://www.landmarkschool.org/landing-pages/reading

https://www.stateofdyslexia.org/

https://solar.blogs.latrobe.edu.au/

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/education/596892/king-s-birthday-honours-knighthood-came-out-of-the-blue-professor-emeritus-james-chapman-says

Society has incorrectly counted on all educators to have the skill and will to do their own lifelong learning. Now social media is revealing a portion of educators feel they do not need to learn unless given paid work training, which is the foundation of why so many places have a literacy crisis.

Informed teachers save lives. ( Dr. Moats)

We don’t have a knowledge gap about dyslexia. We have enough information. We have an “ action gap “ testified Dr. Sally Shaywitz from Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity.

If we knew better, why didn’t we do better? Dr. Reid Lyon

The USA has over 2,000 licensed jobs which require those people to stay up-to-date with their own learning in order to have proper expertise. Those jobs do not offer tenure or the option of the unpaid summer off to catch up on work or life needs.

Dr. Moats wrote about the need to improve teacher licensure standards and accountability requirements here :

https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/moats.pdf

The USA is creating changes for each state here: https://www.stateofdyslexia.org/

Australia has a resource here to improve teacher prep and licensure standards:

https://solar.blogs.latrobe.edu.au/

Join The Reading League to know better and do better. It’s never too late to learn more.

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