Frederick Hess reflects on 'personalised learning' and asks what is meant by 'teacher professionalism' via EducationNext : What Exactly Is Teacher Professionalism, Anyway? By Frederick Hess 10/09/2018 https://www.educationnext.org/what-exactly-is-teacher-professionalism-anyway-reading-pondiscio/ A r...

See this thread featuring outstanding posts by Professor Pamela Snow - including one aimed at student-teachers and their uni education - all relevant to America too, starting with: An open letter to students https://iferi.org/iferi_forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1070 And featuring a truly outstanding...

Professor Pamela Snow, member of IFERI's Advisory Group, writes an outstanding post that although set in the context of Australia's reading debate, is still relevant internationally because of the issues raised and the references to relevant research: It’s time for a Reading Renaissance This article...

This is an outstanding post by Professor Pamela Snow which I've added to several threads as it is so relevant internationally even though it is written from Australia's context:

It's time for a Reading Renaissance

http://pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2018/10/ ... sance.html

I've provided a link to Pam's post via several threads on the IFERI forum because of its relevance to different contexts internationally and also specific ongoing debates: It’s time for a Reading Renaissance This article has been reproduced with permission from The Professional Educator , October 20...

This is one of those 'MUST' reads. Although set in the context of Australia, it is relevant worldwide with regard to teachers' knowledge (or lack) of evidence-informed reading instruction: It’s time for a Reading Renaissance This article has been reproduced with permission from The Professional Educ...

Pam Snow writes outstanding posts. This one is written from Australia's context, but it is truly relevant worldwide - including for England where research-informed reading instruction, including the provision of systematic synthetic phonics, is now embedded in law with a statutory 'Year 1' phonics s...

There is much response to Emily Hanford's work on phonics including this blog post at Eduvaites : Why is everyone and their mother talking about phonics? https://eduvaites.org/2018/10/13/why-is-everyone-and-their-mother-talking-about-phonics/ Noticed that the whole world is suddenly buzzing about ph...

As always, another very sensible, to-the-point blog posts via The Quirky Teacher blog:

https://thequirkyteacher.wordpress.com/ ... d-the-end/

‘….. and then there was a massive explosion and everyone died. THE END’

IFERI committee member, Bob Sweet, provided information about a survey of literature in teacher-training establishments in the US: https://iferi.org/iferi_forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1003 The National Center for Teacher Quality (NCTQ) in Washington, DC conducted a review of most of the current col...