LEARNING AND LITERACY ACROSS THE POND

Thanks to Dr Stephen Hegedus (OW 1991), Dean of Education at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU), a team of academics specialising in literacy have been working in partnership with Head Librarian, Zoe Rowley, to help develop student participation and engagement in learning. Zoe is delighted at this developing collaboration:

"Throughout the past twelve months, we have been excited to work in partnership with Associate Professors Regine Randall, Louise Shaw and Laura Raynolds. They all have extensive experience in writing instruction and lead clinical courses in reading intervention and literacy. In May 2021, we were delighted to virtually welcome this team to observe a Year 7 ASPIRE Accelerated Reader lesson. During this lesson, students read an extract from a book, engaged in discussions and undertook mini ‘Accelerated Reader’ quizzes. We look forward to inviting the Professors to join us again in future for more lessons linked to books and literacy. Their feedback will be beneficial as we incorporate their expertise into future planning.

In combination with our work in the Library at WGS to inspire reading for pleasure whilst boosting literacy attainment, we are hopeful that this partnership will lead to new ventures in 2022."

Stephen is hoping to visit the UK in 2022 and we look forward to seeing him then.