Reading interventions
Structured support in the early primary years.
UDS Solutions
Education & Skills
Work on literacy and numeracy in under-resourced schools, teacher support, and the practical skills that follow young people out of the classroom.
Work on literacy and numeracy in under-resourced schools, teacher support, and the practical skills that follow young people out of the classroom.
Teaching Practice places supervised student teachers in rural schools that are frequently short-staffed. Alongside it, the directorate supports reading interventions, school management training and vacation classes.
The research asks what actually moves attainment in a school with sixty children to a class and no library — which is usually not the same answer as in a well-resourced one.
How it is used in communities
Teacher mentoring
Support for newly posted teachers in rural schools.
Skills for school leavers
Practical training for young people not going on to tertiary study.
What has changed
Better-supported classrooms
Schools that gain prepared, supervised teaching capacity.
Measured gains in reading
Interventions tested rather than assumed.
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