Dr Jennifer Buckingham was quoted in ‘Teaching our teachers to solve a puzzling education conundrum” by Simon Cowan, Glenn Fahey in The Canberra Times, 24 September 2022.
MultiLit Research director of strategy Dr Jennifer Buckingham and Linda Meek concluded in their 2019 study that teachers are not being taught the necessary skills to teach reading in the classroom.
In 70 per cent of the literacy units they reviewed they found “none of the five essential elements of … reading instruction were mentioned in the unit outlines”.
Read on here Teaching our teachers to solve a puzzling education conundrum.