Your district is out there looking for a program for your school, but you want one that will actually work. So you go to a education clearinghouse to sort through what's out there, to look for one that's effective, that is "evidence-based." This turns out to be a challenge.
This is really important for teachers to understand, there is rarely any consistency in the findings of the evidence organizations or guru's - the WWC, EEF, Marzano, Hattie... If I was going to trust anything i would trust the WWC. It has a transparent quality control protocols& it does not have financial conflicts of interest unlike Hattie & Marzano. The WWC also finds there is very little good evidence for most innervations in Education which means we should trust teachers in the classroom more.
The best researched computer-assisted literacy program as per the WWC is Fast ForWord, which has more studies than all others combined. NO one ever talks about that fact, and I wonder why. It is based out of Stanford on real neuroscience, putting it in a class by itself. Yet, I guess teachers and admins are not scientists and cannot be educated as such. Ignorance predominates the literacy question with no hope whatsoever this will change, or even be noticed.
This is really important for teachers to understand, there is rarely any consistency in the findings of the evidence organizations or guru's - the WWC, EEF, Marzano, Hattie... If I was going to trust anything i would trust the WWC. It has a transparent quality control protocols& it does not have financial conflicts of interest unlike Hattie & Marzano. The WWC also finds there is very little good evidence for most innervations in Education which means we should trust teachers in the classroom more.
The best researched computer-assisted literacy program as per the WWC is Fast ForWord, which has more studies than all others combined. NO one ever talks about that fact, and I wonder why. It is based out of Stanford on real neuroscience, putting it in a class by itself. Yet, I guess teachers and admins are not scientists and cannot be educated as such. Ignorance predominates the literacy question with no hope whatsoever this will change, or even be noticed.