Michigan Branch
International Dyslexia Association
Audience Comments during the October 9, 2010 Conference
Turn and Talk afternoon session:
Turn and Talk afternoon session:
- Teacher preparation didn’t give me the intro to specific methods and skills
- Teaching literacy is political
- Appreciate the chance to take what learned today and apply at school on Monday
- Teacher preparation should take into consideration what the students need
- Help teachers develop students’ character
- Behavior and literacy linked
- Research should be in classes with real kids
- Model of residency for student teachers with master teacher. Add amount of practical experiences with each course. Possible cohorts to aid pre-service teachers.
- Older students are still experiencing the same needs as elementary students, so same training can be applied.
- Automaticity is the key.
- Need for repetition, but in different ways to aid transfer.
- Remember to ask the child to help make bridges.
- Comprehension is a process that precedes, is in the moment and continues on after the reading of the text.
- Levels of language should not just be presented in a hierarchical manner
- Harness our political power together to make a dyslexia law.
- Disability is a small percentage of the person.
Questions posed by Jo Kuyvenhoven in her response:
- How can we as educators do a better job of acknowledging complexity and practice it while learning particular strategies, and using them in remediation? Or to meet the need at a particular stage of development?
- We know language is oral, social, personal and about presence, and inextricable to reading. Why does a 2009 text say “we have very few strategies to nourish reading with talk?” Why aren’t we working on that?