'A terrible burden': The emotional toll of discredited reading instruction practices

Sarah Duggan

By Sarah Duggan
Published December 12, 2022

Searing guilt, anger and painful disbelief – the moment teachers realise their approach to reading instruction may well have caused a trail of instructional casualties can be a harrowing prospect to accept.

Professor Pamela Snow says many teachers feel resentment over the fact that they've paid a lot of money for a degree that has "left a very significant facet of their professional practice with a great big hole in it".

In this multi-part series, we speak with educators and literacy experts about the emotional minefield teachers must navigate when they ...

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