It will now be extended across the country thanks to a $10m Ministry of Education award. Professors Gail Gillon and Brigid McNeill have led the development of the system since 2015, when controlled trials compared the approach to existing teaching methods.
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Professor Gail Gillon, of University of Canterbury’s Child Well-Being Research Institute. “Children were more advanced in their reading and writing than where they were if they used the other types of classroom practices,” said Gillon, who is director of UC’s Child Well-being Research Institute. “It brings all the best evidence that we know about what leads to reading and writing success”.
The Better Start Literacy Approach
(BSLA), developed by a team of researchers at UC’s Child
Well-Being Research Institute, is being rolled out this year
to over 1000 new entrant/Year 1 teachers and literacy
specialists around New Zealand.
The $10m
funding over the next two years will support the upskilling
of approximately 5,000 teachers and literacy specialists
through UC’s new micro-credential professional development
qualifications.
Professors Gail Gillon and
Brigid McNeill have led the development of the Better Start
Literacy Approach over several years. The success of the
approach in developing children’s oral language, early
reading and writing ability has been proven through
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The Better Start Literacy Approach (BSLA), developed by a team of researchers at UC’s Child Well-Being Research Institute, is being rolled out this year to over 1000 new entrant/Year 1 teachers and literacy specialists around New Zealand.
The $10m funding over the next two years will support the upskilling of approximately 5,000 teachers and literacy specialists through UC’s new micro-credential professional development qualifications.
Professors Gail Gillon and Brigid McNeill have led the development of the Better Start Literacy Approach over several years. The success of the approach in developing children’s oral language, early reading and writing ability has been proven through controlled research trials as part of the