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MESH Spelling Guide

Teaching Spelling – an invitation

We are writing to you to invite you, your colleagues and your students to test out the Teaching Spelling MESH Guide and other Guides on www.MESHguides.org.

This is a new web resource on the teaching of spelling – developed by teachers and teacher educators to share evidence-based practice.

A worldwide network of teachers and university teacher educators is experimenting with publishing information about effective teaching in a new form to support teachers (in training or experienced) in accessing quality assured research-based knowledge throughout their career. The resources, called MESH Guides, provide access to research to underpin professional judgement but are written in a way that easily translates research into practice.

The MESH Guides are free. MESH is an education sector driven organisation, which aims to offer not only good teaching ideas, but resources that have been tried out by experienced teachers, that are scaffolded by good theory, and have been validated by nationally recognised experts. The evidence underpinning the advice is madeclear, as are the names and affiliations of those giving the advice, so that teachers, as professionals, can make decisions how the advice might work in their context.

The Spelling MESH Guide is now live. Please invite your colleagues and/or their students to investigate the MESH Spelling Guide as soon as they care to. This is on pilot software so apologies for that; however, the interface will be improved following feedback and as we raise funding.

Please send us some evaluation comments, you need only click the link ‘Evaluate this site’ on the Spelling page, which will take you to the evaluation questionnaire.

The data will help us improve.

We would really appreciate your passing this invitation on to other teachers, student teachers and teacher educators. In England, trainee teachers are often told that whatever their specialism, every teacher is a teacher of English and we hope this Spelling Guide will help all teachers. The more feedback we have the better the resources will become and there is no deadline on responses. We plan to be developing the MESH Guides for many years to come. If you would like to be involved click the ‘Get Involved’ tab on www.MESHguides.org.

Many thanks

Professor Marilyn Leask and Professor Colin Harrison
University of Bedfordshire, UK and University of Nottingham, UK.
On behalf of the MESH Founder Members www.MESHguides.org.

To contact us email enquiries@meshguides.org.

Marilyn Leask
Professor of Educational Knowledge Management
University of Bedfordshire
UK MK 41 9EA
T:+44 7568520447
S: Marilyn.Leask
Convenor: BERA SIG Educational Research and Policy Making (www.BERA.ac.uk)
Current Projects: MESH (www.MESHguides.org) Mobilising, mapping and managing Ed. Specialist knowHow; www.educationcommunities.org;
Textbook series editor - Learning to Teach in the Secondary School (Routledge/Taylor Francis)

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