Professor John Munro, Learning to teach students who have reading and literacy learning difficulties

Associate Professor John Munro of Melbourne University, 11:45, will describe one approach to using educational technology to train teachers to teach students who have reading and literacy learning difficulties.

This seminar describes one approach to using educational technology to train teachers to teach students who have reading and literacy learning difficulties.
To successfully teach these students, teachers need to
• understand how readers read,
• identify the multiple causes of these difficulties
• assess and diagnose these difficulties
• use effective teaching procedures.

The approach uses educational technology procedures to teach these components. It simulate the processes involved in early word reading and shows how dyslexia is caused. Second, it shows various types of reading difficulty being diagnosed. Third it shows various teaching procedures being used in regular classrooms.