Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155) and index.
Contents:
1. Introduction - 2. Not achieved. Introduction -- New evidence of the bimodal pattern of achievement -- Reading progress and the PIRLS 2006, 2011 and 2016 -- Reports of the National Education Evaluation and Development Unit -- Annual National Assessments -- Reading Catch-Up Programme - Conclusion. 3: Why policy fails, and the pivot to instruction. Introduction -- Policy interventions -- Beyond input-output and school effectiveness models - Instruction -- Systems of instruction -- Instruction in systems - Conclusion. 4. Practices of literacy teaching. Introduction -- Two instructional practices in literacy teaching -- Choral reading aloud as the instructional core -- Systematic reading instruction - Conclusion. 5. Learning from research. Introduction - READ - Molteno -- CLE literacy intervention -- Reading is FUNdamental -- Family Literacy Project -- Additive Bilingual Education Project -- Systematic Method for Reading Success (SMRS) -- Conclusion. 6, Change at the instructional core. Introduction -- What the research literature tells us about system-wide reform -- The instructional turn -- The education triple cocktail - Conclusion. 7. The Reading Catch-Up Programme: a case study of change at the instructional core. Introduction -- The Intersen Catch-Up Programme -- Teachers' talk - Evaluation - Conclusion. 8. Compelling evidence. Introduction -- What the international literature tells us - GPLMS -- The Pinetown Study -- The Early Grade Reading Study -- Conclusion: What we know. 9. Conclusion. Change is not an event, it is a journey -- R&D and the triple cocktail components - Policy -- Leadership
Summary:
The Education Triple Cocktail: System-wide Instructional Reform in South Africa brings together rigorous quantitative and qualitative research on a new approach to improving foundational teaching and learning for primary schoolchildren who are being educated in working-class urban areas and rural communities in resource-constrained systems like South Africa. At the core is the theory and evidence for a powerful new interlocking and mutually reinforcing change model. Inspired by the AIDS treatment story, the approach brings together structured daily lesson plans, high-quality and appropriate educational materials, and one-on-one instructional coaching to help teachers transform their instructional practices in early grade classrooms and thereby improve learning outcomes. For education systems defined by low levels of early grade learning and profoundly unequal outcomes, The Education Triple Cocktail offers a theoretically informed, evidence-based way forward.
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