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MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION
QUESTION NO 298
Reading Recovery Program
MR CORNWELL - asked the Minister for Education and Training on notice on 13 August 1992:
(1) Did the Department of Education and Training assist in organising the First International Reading Recovery Institute Conference in Hawaii in July 1992
(2) If so, what was the cost of this assistance.
(3) If so, why was the Department not officially represented
at the Conference.
(4) Is the current ACT Reading Recovery Program to be changed and if so, why.
MR WOOD - the answer to Mr Cornwells question is:
(1) I am advised that one of the current ACT Reading Recovery Coordinators, Mr John McIntyre, was a member of the organising committee responsible for the First International Reading Recovery Institute Conference held in Hawaii on 10-12 July 1992. This was undertaken on a personal basis as a, part of his own professional involvement and commitment to Reading Recovery, not on behalf of, or as a representative of, the Department.
(2) The Department was not involved in any way in the costs of organising the event.
(3) No official representation occurred as there was no official Departmental involvement in organising the Conference.
(4) There is no plan to change the Reading Recovery Program in the way it is practised in the ACT. The Department is currently developing an integrated policy for delivering assistance to mainstream primary school students with special needs. The resultant Learning Advancement Program is designed to enable schools to deliver their Reading Recovery and Resource Programs in a more coordinated way. One advantage of this approach will be increased flexibility for schools to respond to the specific needs of their students from year to year. In fact, in a year when a significant number of Year 1 students require Reading Recovery, a school will be able to increase the allocation of staff to its Reading Recovery Program from its pool of Learning Advancement points.
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