Dyslexia

As an education student, a common sentiment was you would learn more on the job than you would in a college lecture hall. But what about the things you learn in neither? It goes back to the saying you don’t know what you don’t know, but what if this means students suffer in the process.

One of these topics is dyslexia, dysgraphia, or dyscalculia. Beyond knowing that it interferes with reading, I didn’t know much. So as a teacher and someone not trained in dyslexia, how would I know if a student had it? Years into my career, I took a new position in a school district and worked with students from Kindergarten…