[senco-forum] Separate forum for the teaching of reading/literacy

I have re- subscribed only to post this one message.

Personally I wouldn't like the idea of a fragmenting of the
SENCo forum into separate specialist interest groups.

The reason SENCo forum is _such_ a valuable resource is
because of its comprehensiveness (if there is such a word).

It is a shame you no longer feel able to contribute to the
forum just on those topics which interest you, as your
contibutions were often much valued. The topic threads tend
to be well titled and will often get changed if necessary.

It is not terribly often that you get threads unhelpfully
titled just 'Advice Please'. I always find it easy to scan
thread titles and pick out what is of interest. If threads
are removed to another forum then I will loose the ability
to do this.

I would encourage everyone to support this forum, and post
here for all to see.

Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "eddiecarron" <eddiecarron at btconnect.com>
To: <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
Subject: [senco-forum] Separate forum for the teaching of
reading/literacy
Date: 07-Dec-2006 15:25:40 GMT

> I have re- subscribed only to post this one message.
> 
>  
> 
> I unsubscribed some months ago because I felt that
> Senco-forum members were no longer interested in my own
> special area which is the promotion of literacy and the
> initial teaching of reading. I take the view that a
> resolution of the initial teaching of reading issue would
> remove many of the ''special needs' which later emerge on
> the basis of the idea that prevention is always better
> than cure and since we are obviously not very good at
> delivering 'cures' anyway.  Even a cursory examination of
> the topics discussed on the Senco forum shows that SENCo
> are now more concerned with the administration of
> illiteracy than with its remediation. Since I have no
> interest in its administration, I simply unsubscribed.
> This is not to denigrate these causes or issues - I know
> they are of great interest to SENCo and others but they
> are of no interest to me personally. I felt that by
> unsubscribing that would be the end of the matter.
> 
>  
> 
> I have recently been emailed by someone who had I believe
> also circulated others, on the subject of the poor
> representation on literacy topics on the forum. This
> person indicated an interest in anther forum lwhich would
> be ring-fenced for literacy issues only and in particular,
> for the intitial teaching of reading to the exclusion of
> all else.
> 
>  
> 
> I wondered if there would be others interested in pressing
> BECTa for the establishment of such a limited forum since
> some very interesting things are currently happening this
> field in which our performance is presently so abysmal
> compared to that of many other countries who appear to
> take 98% literacy as the norm whilst we have bumbled along
> for decades with a miserable 81%.  We really do continue
> to allow about one child in five to leave school at
> sixteen, less than functionally literate.  Surely this is
> worthy of its own debating forum?
> 
>  
> 
> Eddie Carron 
> 
>  
> 
> 
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