{"id":6619,"date":"2012-06-25T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2012-06-19T14:40:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T18:40:53","slug":"better-prepared-teachers-lessen-the-impact-of-reading-difficulties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/better-prepared-teachers-lessen-the-impact-of-reading-difficulties\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Prepared Teachers Lessen the Impact of Reading Difficulties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Better%20Prepared%20Teachers%20Lessen%20the%20Impact%20of%20Reading%20Difficulties\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/nltr\/img\/class.active.sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"95\" \/>The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) is conducting reviews of university-based teacher training programs in reading using the criteria set in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=4096\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">IDA Knowledge and Practice Standards<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is good news!<\/p>\n<p>On this blog we have often discussed how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=116\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">alarming it is that children are NOT learning how to read<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dyslexics or children with reading disorders make up 70-80% of the special education students. Most college special education masters programs do not include comprehensive instruction in reading for dyslexics. Robin Hansen asks (and answers) the question, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=513\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;Is there any wonder why special education reading scores are so low?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For years <strong>dedicated teachers have said they are unprepared to teach struggling readers<\/strong>. Marcia Henry, Ph.D., who has 44 years of experience in the field of reading and dyslexia, working as a teacher, diagnostician, tutor, and professor, explains why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=5703\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">we need better teacher preparation<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education Report, James Comer and Robert Pianta found that &#8220;Despite the understanding of how children and adolescents grow and learn, schools are not applying this knowledge. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=4081\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Neither are teacher preparation programs<\/span><\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally &#8211; comprehensive evaluations of teacher training programs in reading.<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The short-term goal of IDA\u2019s review of university programs is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to identify teacher training programs that meet the IDA Standards<\/li>\n<li>to provide a framework for course content and high-quality teacher preparation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>IDA now recognizes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interdys.org\/UniversityReview.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Nine Universities for Meeting Teacher Training Standards in Reading<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The university programs submit a wide variety of course materials and requirements for the review, which also includes a site visit to the school. Each program is being evaluated by a team of three reviewers, all highly credentialed practitioners and researchers in the field.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, IDA solicited applications for reviewers, which were vetted and selected by the IDA Standards &amp; Practices committee in the fall. The reviewers participated in two training webinars on the IDA Standards and the review process.<\/p>\n<p>After completion of the university reviews, the Standards &amp; Practices committee will undertake reviews of instructional reading programs, other teacher training and certification programs, and international programs.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interdys.org\/TeacherTrainingProgramReview.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">IDA&#8217;s Reviews of University Teacher Training Programs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interdys.org\/TeacherTrainingProgramReview.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">http:\/\/www.interdys.org\/TeacherTrainingProgramReview.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) is conducting reviews of university-based teacher training programs in reading using the criteria set in the IDA Knowledge and Practice Standards. This is good news! <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/better-prepared-teachers-lessen-the-impact-of-reading-difficulties\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,161],"tags":[1308,357,653,1300,226,882,101,413],"class_list":["post-6619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-teachers","tag-dyslexia","tag-ida","tag-international-dyslexia-association","tag-reading","tag-reading-teachers","tag-teacher-preparation","tag-teacher-training","tag-teaching-reading"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6619"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7722,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions\/7722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}