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TEACHERS TAUGHT LITERACY ON SAME COURSE AS PUPILS

The literacy course shows how to break down and decode words
Sunday December 9,2012
By Hilary Douglas
TEACHERS are being taught literacy with the same course that helps teenagers to improve their reading and writing.

The desperate need for staff to brush up their own skills was highlighted after a school in Ipswich, Suffolk, had to hire a proof reader to catch spelling mistakes.

The literacy course shows both teachers and secondary pupils how to break down words to decode their meaning and spell them correctly.

Katy Parkinson, who developed Sound Training For Reading, said: �For many teachers, their training has not taught them to teach literacy as the school inspectors Ofsted expect.

�Many will have missed this themselves at school and then didn�t get taught how to decode words by breaking them down into their individual parts at training college.

�It is so wrong that they haven�t been taught it as a child and then they are being inspected on it in their teaching.

�This course is very intensive, usually for four pupils at a time. It is usually for pupils who have reached secondary education with literacy skills not quite as good as they should be.

�We show how to break a word down into its component parts. Take a word such as transportation: trans means across; port, to carry, and the �tion� sound as a suffix meaning the process of carrying across.�

Mrs Parkinson added: �All teachers, no matter what their subject, are expected to teach literacy across the curriculum and many find this very difficult, having specialised in their own subject maybe for years.

�Many have told me that my online resource has taken the panic away from teaching literacy.�

The specialist reading teacher is based at Middlesbrough�s DigitalCity Business offices where she developed the 13-year-old programme.

The bad English of teachers is just one sign of the collapse of real education in England. The state schools are compelled by politicians to have a politically-correct curriculum. They have to have lessons in global warming, environmentalism ,sexual orientation, homosexuality and how wonderfully healthy it is and could not possibly cause AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, feminism, sexism, the evils of capitalism and Britain's imperial past, multiculturalism, how to fit a condom, how to get an abortion without your parents� knowing, the latest fads of so-called healthy eating, the wonders of the European Union, and all the other politically correct nonsense. How can they make time to teach English, maths, science and modern languages?
They cannot teach them because they do not know how, they feel they are too important and require loads of money and time off for the limited so called skills they have.
Is it any wonder the minds of our youngsters are corrupted when they get third class teachers in this day and age, if they paid them by results they would get no pay at all.