[senco-forum] FW: Media: Real Story: The Teacher Squad (BBC1, 7pm, 13 Dec) features charity Xtraordinary People

brian hepburn <hepburnbrian at hotmail.com> wrote:

The implication is that we've got another magic solution and that all the 
teachers who taught these kids in the past were either crap or incompetent.

It's not that the teachers were either crap or incompetent, it was the the way most of them were straitjacketed into teaching the National Literacy Strategy way with its deadly mix of 'look & say', high frequency words taught as 'whole words' and minimal teaching of poorly understood and presented phonic work.

Maggie

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