Teach Effectively!

Based on a story by a colleague, here’s a suggestion: If you are an elementary school teacher who attended a teacher education program and you were not taught expressly how to teach beginning reading (phoneme segmentation, blending, letter-sound associations, decoding, fluency), please write to the dean of your school, college, or department of education and explain that you were mal-educated and you hope that the school you attended is doing a better job of preparing teachers now.

Then, let me know that you did it, please.