Everything Old is New Again in education
I have maintained my entire career that we just keep recycling the same ideas with shinier wrapping on them. There is a major document and research from the UK on inclusion. An overview is here:
You can click on the hyperlinks in the article to go to the new Inclusion document.
What I found particularly interesting is they directly say that both explicit instruction and gradually scaffolding for independence are core instructional techniques that benefit mainstrean pupils, and is *particularly helpful* to students with diverse needs.
I'm certain some of my profs are horrified. If they were old enough, they'd be spinning in their graves. The number of times they told me "project based instruction" was the only option, and that the "sage on a stage" was dead, AND that the I do, we do, you do model was clearly cursed! I am happy I ignored them and use both. I do project based of course, when it makes sense.
And here we are again with educators suddenly waking up to the fact that phonics is KINDA IMPORTANT!! Yet the only sets of group readers I have access to is LLI. Also, in the past 10 years of teaching, I've had to use 5 different literacy programs. A couple were pure shyte, but the other 3 that were effective were essentially the same thing with different serial numbers.
Why do divisions keep spending so much money on the newest fad? So often it's the same thing all over again, just with different window dressing and language. This seems to be an issue in many different divisions and countries judging by what I read here.