[senco-forum] help for a pupil recognising numbers

I am so sceptical about the efficacy of some of these practices... Does

Well, most of them, really!  Note I said 'sceptical', not 'I don't believe it'!.. I'm willing to be convinced by some well researched, peer reviewed, evidence.  What is wrong with that?  Doesn't 'advice' on this forum extend to advice on where to find evidence for a practice?

After all, massive swathes of the teaching profession used to believe that children learned to read by 'immmersion' in text, learning word shapes and looking at pictures.  Was it research evidence or 'teachers' beliefs/experience' that caused a (slight) denting of this particular belief?

No-one has to agree with me or get upset because I don't subscribe uncritically to 'accepted practice'.

Maggie

Biff Crabbe <ba at biffc.vispa.com> wrote: Which are the practices about which you are so sceptical Maggie?  Are we to 
take it that your scepticism about their usefulness is based simply on the 
absence of peer-reviewed research?

Biff
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Maggie Downie" 
To: "Mary Kelly" ; "'WrayJanice Wray'" 
; "'senco forum'" 
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 1:27 PM
Subject: RE: [senco-forum] help for a pupil recognising numbers - 
notdyscalculic

>I am so sceptical about the efficacy of some of these practices...  Does 
>anyone have references to any peer reviewed studies which confirm their 
>utility?
>
> Maggie

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