[NLA] Re: Reading Instruction and Policy Advocacy

[Eileen Eckert]

Please cite evidence for the effectiveness of teacher certification in terms 
of learner outcomes. I'm looking, and I haven't found any yet.


>From: AWilder106 at aol.com
>Reply-To: nla at lists.literacytent.org
>To: nla at lists.literacytent.org
>Subject: Re: [NLA] Re: Reading Instruction and Policy Advocacy
>Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:23:51 EDT
>
>Eileen,
>
>I would mandate certification which included instruction in phonics and
>phonology and whole language techniques.  I invite anyone who demurs from
>advancing down this path to read some of the Goodmans' work.  I would also
>mandate training in the recognition and remediation of learning 
>disabilities,
>in the understanding that about 2-3% of the population has a learning
>disability (not "difficulty," the consequence of poor teaching, poor 
>teacher
>training).
>
>As certification is under state control, I believe, this would be done at 
>the
>state level.  I do think it verges on the criminal not to require teacher
>mastery of knowledge about learning difficulties, and learning 
>disabilities.
>In volunteer programs a program manager could be trained to teach and train
>volunteers.
>
>"Whole language" is a very big umbrella, it covers, for example project 
>work
>like that which produced the videotape "Together We Bloom,"  as well as
>systematic use of "miscue analysis" which Art, for example, used in a 
>casual
>way by giving entering students the newspaper to read.
>
>Others will have ideas about the best ways to bring this about.  My guess 
>is
>that these techniques are already in some use in adult literacy classrooms.
>
>Andrea
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