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Action Steps on Teaching for Policymakers
Policymakers can have a great impact on the success of schools in raising reading achievement for all students. Policymakers can:
- Support colleges and universities in revising the reading instruction curriculum so that it focuses not only on theory but also on practical applications of reading development principles.
- Ensure that prospective teachers have balanced instruction that provides foundations in a wide range of research-based approaches to reading.
- Require college students preparing to be teachers to have extended learning experiences in diverse classrooms prior to graduation.
- Provide the training, support, and materials for all teachers in kindergarten through third grade to become more proficient in reading instruction.
- Provide incentives for teachers to pursue master. s-level training to become reading specialists.
- Encourage the community to support ongoing, intensive, high-quality professional development for teachers as a way to improve reading instruction.
- Create new avenues through which to circulate new research findings on reading instruction quickly and effectively
- Provide teachers with assessments to gauge reading skills and to aid in the design and implementation of effective, individualized reading intervention.
- Devise incentives for teacher education programs to seek national accreditation.
- Support the effective instruction of limited-English-proficient students. Ensure that these students have language-appropriate books and other materials.
- Require college students preparing to be teachers to take the time to practice research-based techniques and to get feedback from master teachers.
- Develop performance-based assessments for the initial licensing of teachers that require prospective elementary school teachers to demonstrate their ability to teach reading.
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