Amanda Dunstan

@DrMPaff @LitMomTruthBomb

@greg_ashman Article written by employed adult who can spell and add up? Easy to write off those skills as unimportant when you have them.

"To suggest that spelling and adding up are the most important skills our students need for 21st century success is just playing short term politics." 👀 An absolutely dreadful AARE blog post. blog.aare.edu.au/what-is-the-te…

@DrMPaff The replies to him though 😂😂

@tombennett71 This. Have your child physically assaulted at school and then calmly discuss the ‘unmet needs’ of the perpetrator.

So true. It’s amazing how many people I hear say that we shouldn’t have sanctions, or suspensions, or exclusions, but who wouldn’t dream of sending their kids to schools where behaviour was dangerous and chaotic. Because they send their kids to leafy, affluent middle class environments.

Cmon …… As the Parent of children in a challenging school this just isn’t true…..

”Practice doesn’t make perfect, practice makes permanent”  Doug Lemov. Practice Perfect. How not to teach spelling – familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. linguisticphonics.wordpress.com/2020/03/08/how…

Know what the most consistent feedback is for the #SpellingforLife one day workshop is? "Need more time/need two days". So we've responded by dividing the program into lower and upper primary workshops. Watch this space!

@lifelonglit Agree with this after a 13 year battle with 3 child schooling. Prep interview I said ‘something isn’t right. She just doesnt get reading.’ Never has the expression ‘you don’t know, what you don’t know’ fit so well.

This is really good. When all I did is work with children, I used to feel that teachers were responsible for the devastation wreaked by BL. Now that my students are teachers, I know they aren’t the the right target.

”The highest predictor of a child’s comprehension score on a standard reading comprehension test is a measure of decoding skill, the ability to read one word at a time *out of context*'' (McGuinness. Why Children Can't Read p.293 emphasis in original)

Kids high school promoting end of year ‘success’ Uni acceptance - that’s it No trades D - not taught to read has self funded her overseas trip for 4 months Out of touch and I’m so glad her school ‘experience’ is finished so she can now bloom.

@fbongiornoanu @newscomauHQ Render assistance ? He is conscious speaking to his wife on a mobile phone …. you sort it Ms Campion. You know for better or worse.

"Ms Campion said she was disappointed someone filmed the incident rather than render assistance." Bizarre video shows Barnaby Joyce swearing on phone on footpath news.com.au/national/polit… via @newscomauHQ

@KalissaSwan That’s the part that teachers need: knowing what to do and how to do it once you have that data from the diagnostic assessment. Thank for genuinely sharing here. I appreciate it. Has your state made any shifts toward the reading research?

I say and firmly believe this: If a student gets to your classroom, regardless of the grade level, and they can’t read, YOU ARE IT! No matter what has happened before you, the question becomes: Will you be the one to get that student some additional help?

@EdnaKrabapple1 @RogersHistory Or Parent in mainstream school where significant proportion have no interest in behaving. When it’s your child on the receiving end of ‘behaviour that needs to be understood’ ie violence, your opinion changes..

@RogersHistory We all know who you are referring to. . .

Time to post this again: Some ppl on this social network have absolutely no concept of what it’s like to be a teacher in a mainstream classroom of 30+ students where a significant proportion have no interest in behaving well.

Sold a Story won a duPont-Columbia Award last night. We were in some amazing company. You can read about all the winners and finalists here: dupont.org/2024-winners-f… @duPontAwards @columbiajourn @CLPeak @C_E_Winter @apmreports

Knowledge is not something we can just look up when we need it. Knowledge is what we think *with*.

Thank you Pam and you are so right … while we should celebrate the progress made, we must keep focused on the goal. That every child irrespective of background, circumstance or geography will be provided with evidence-based instruction in reading from their first day in school.

“Parents are being urged to assess the reading instruction approach used at their child’s school,with prominent literacy education provider MultiLit warning too many still use methods that are ineffective at best & damaging at worst” Full article here 👇 educationhq.com/news/parents-c…

Parents called to scrutinise schools’ reading instruction approach. @fivefromfive @DVS educationhq.com/news/parents-c…