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Pupils' views of Dyslexia Friendly Teaching

Mike Johnson

Manchester Metropolitan University M.C.Johnson@mmu.ac.uk

Abstract

In April 2002 the Centre for Inclusive Education and SEN in collaboration with the British Dyslexia Association was awarded a DfES SEN Inset Fund grant to develop a teaching unit for newly and recently qualified teachers on Dyslexia Friendly Classrooms. The views of 138 pupils with severe dyslexia on what constituted a Dyslexia Friendly Classroom were obtained – 52 from Primary Schools and 66 from Secondary Schools. The results indicated that that both the personal characteristics of teachers and their pedagogical expertise were implicated in whether they were seen as effective by pupils with dyslexia. The personal characteristics were seen as more important than the pedagogical. In terms of curriculum whilst there were clear differences between the perceived difficulties of the National Curriculum subjects it became clear that in the main these were related to curriculum delivery rather than conceptual basis or subject methodology.

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