Table of Contents: Introduction Dys-lex-ia The Early Years Primary School Secondary School Technology Exams and Qualifications Higher Education Teaching
Joe Beech was diagnosed with both dyslexia and dyspraxia at age seven. He is now a qualified physics teacher. Joe won an Outstanding Achievement Award given by the British Dyslexia Association in October 2013 for his work. Since establishing Independent Thinking 25 years ago, Ian Gilbert has made a name for himself across the world as a highly original writer, editor, speaker, practitioner and thinker and is someone who the IB World magazine has referred to as one of the world's leading educational visionaries.The author of several books, and the editor of many more, Ian is known by thousands of teachers and young people across the world for his award-winning Thunks books. Thunks grew out of Ian's work with Philosophy for Children (P4C), and are beguiling yet deceptively powerful little philosophical questions that he has created to make children's - as well as their teachers' - brains hurt.Ian's growing collection of bestselling books has a more serious side too, without ever losing sight of his trademark wit and straight-talking style. The Little Book of Bereavement for Schools, born from personal family experience, is finding a home in schools across the world, and The Working Class - a massive collaborative effort he instigated and edited - is making a genuine difference to the lives of young people from some of the poorest backgrounds.A unique writer and editor, there is no other voice like Ian Gilbert's in education today.
Reviewed by Roger Pask, Education Leadership and Management
Consultant, Facilitator and Coach.
This may be a 'little book' but it is about a big subject and has
great heart and a penetrating mind. It is a very useful book that
is as much about the whole issue of learning as it is about
dyslexia.
Joe Beech combines his personal story, a succinct account of the
theory and research associated with dyslexia and a significant
degree of practical recommendations that cannot fail to be of
immense use to everyone who has experience of dyslexia - as
subject, parent or teacher.
The way Joe tells his own story endears him to his readers and
commands human attention to this most human of challenges both to
learning in our social and educational systems and to how we should
regard a specific group of learners, numbering over two million
people in this country alone. He charts his own experience from
early childhood through to his experiences in higher education - a
story of obstacles triumphed over, and how those obstacles could
and should be significantly reduced by those who manage learning
systems.
The first five chapters introduce the reader to the subject itself,
explaining the potential genetic origins of dyslexia and the
questions it raises about the way that we think about learning and
some of the many obstacles there are to learning within our social
and educational systems. The three chapters dealing with the period
of early years through to secondary school help us to get inside
the mind of a child experiencing dyslexia and the typical response
of the system to such a child. The 'system' includes teachers and
parents in particular for it is the personal response of the adults
whom the child encounters who can profoundly influence whether
learning for a child experiencing dyslexia becomes a pathway among
many possible pathways, or a steep incline with ever-growing
obstacles to be cleared in an increasingly isolating climate.
Joe charts the story with a l
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