This article explores second year pre-service teachers' ability to work with Indigenous students and their families during a small-scale project conducted in an Indigenous community. Supported field placements offered the pre-service teachers valuable opportunities to engage with the teaching of reading to Indigenous students "on their…

Details the methods used in a program designed to counsel parents of poor readers, including suggestions for ways parents can help their children with reading and for teaching methods they might use. Recent research findings concerning the effectiveness of educational counseling for parents are also presented. (FL)

The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…