It is a cautious note that has received little response and has not been the subject of any special communication from National Education. However, the stakes are high. The Scientific Council for National Education (CSEN), created in 2018 by Pope Ndiaye’s predecessor Jean-Michel Blanc, said in a two-page memo published in October: “Methods and manuals (to read) effectively remains among the least used” by teachers. In other words, the so-called “mixed” method, which combines the well-known “global” method, which was very fashionable in the 1970s, based on the automatic recognition of words without necessarily decoding them, and the syllabic method continues to be well used in the classroom; pedagogies “Totally unacceptable” provides scientific advice.
“Reading is one of the foundational skills that the whole school is built on. It is also one of those areas where scientific data…
Source: Le Figaro
