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The Department of Education at 黑料专区 will offer literacy courses based on research beginning in the spring semester of 2024, to aide future teachers in complying with a passed by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2021.

Dr. Dawn Lucas, Pfeiffer鈥檚 Dean of the Undergraduate College and Department Chair for Education, is confident that the University鈥檚 education professors are up to the task of providing instruction in Science of Reading methods for teacher candidates, who will be required by law to follow them when they start teaching in North Carolina鈥檚 public schools.

鈥淲e鈥檝e done a lot of work on the front side of things,鈥� she said. 鈥淲e鈥檝e focused on implementing the Science of Reading approach into our curriculum, and I鈥檓 confident in our ability to adapt to changes in the reading and literacy instruction we鈥檙e about to offer to our teacher candidates.鈥�

Dr. Angela Kern, a Professor in Pfeiffer鈥檚 Department of Education, played a key role in the transition to Science of Reading at Pfeiffer, along with her colleague, Assistant Professor Dr. DeAnna Hurley-Chamberlain.

Kern described Science of Reading as 鈥渢he body of research that explains how individuals learn how to read and best practices for reading instruction.鈥�

鈥淣ew methods include explicit, multisensory, and systematic instruction in word recognition and language comprehension which leads to meaningful reading comprehension,鈥� she said. 鈥淔ocus of instruction includes: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.鈥�

Shortly after Science of Reading became mandated in North Carolina, a emerged in which the Goodnight Educational Foundation awarded Pfeiffer and other members of the (NCICU) $1 million over two years to support the implementation of Science of Reading into the NCICU members鈥� curriculums for teacher education students.

Pfeiffer used its portion of the foundation grant to fund numerous training workshops for professors. In addition, the professors perfected Science of Reading methods in practice with children from nearby public schools during Falcon Literacy Days.

When Lucas looks at the big picture related to Science of Reading, she鈥檚 encouraged because Pfeiffer鈥檚 education students will find that the Science of Reading approach is used in each of North Carolina鈥檚 public schools. In the past, approaches had varied from school to school.

鈥淚t is empowering to know that we are training our future teachers to utilize a program that we know for sure they’re going to be using in North Carolina鈥檚 school systems,鈥� she said. 鈥淚t will make an important difference for our graduates and for education in our state.鈥�