While all schools require specially qualified remedial teachers, the provision of remedial help for individual children is a responsibility of all teachers, whether they are class teachers in a primary school or subject specialists in a secondary school. Remedial teachers have a new and important role in advising and cooperating with their…

The vast majority of children need have no real difficulty with reading. A short, structured course, together with a large amount of effort and goodwill from the teachers, appears to have success at coping with many of those children entering a secondary school as poor or hesitant readers. (Author)

Discusses how to ensure that children who need special help are identified through a series of "safety nets" and given whatever support is individually required. (Editor/RK)

Discusses the responsibilities of the remedial teacher in developing Humanities courses for slow learners as well as high ability students. (RK)

Describes some ways to make mixed ability teaching more relevant for slow learning students and to relieve some of the apprehension experienced by classroom teachers. (Author/RK)