Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Challenges of the Reading Specialist

Have we considered what we may encounter when we have left these hallowed walls of UWI, St Augustine and entered into the world of work as Reading Specialists? Well I considered a few of the challenges and listed them below. Feel free to blog or add any that I may have overlooked.

• Sourcing appropriate and effective resources to execute the programme.
• Dealing with misconceptions as to what exactly our role as Reading
Specialists actually is
• Acceptance – coming in after a history of ineffective professional
development programmes, teachers may be unwilling to unlearn before they
can apply the new ideas we may bring forth
• Support from fellow colleagues
• Building a culture that encourages ‘receptivity to constructive criticism’
• Proving that we are not here to dictate changes to the curriculum or
enforce extra work without consultation with teachers.

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