Britain’s oldest teacher looks back on his legacy

This month is having dual ceremonies for Britain’s oldest teacher – not only marking his 90th birthday, but also the impact on dyslexia education in six decades.

Dr. Neville Brown established the Maple Hayes Hall School for Dislexia at Lichfield, Staffordshire, over 40 years ago.

Pupils who were once unable to write their names became a minimum of seven GCS, university degrees and became professional.

Dr. Brown said, “I see every child for evaluation before coming here, before they do their week in one class.”

“Parents are sitting there what is going on. You can see surprise on the parents’ face but you can see happiness on the child’s face.

“They change during the teaching session.”

Dyslexia affects one of 10 school children and leads to conflict with reading and spelling that often does not reflect the child’s true intelligence.

School, which Dr. Brown has a co-head of brown, nearly a mission to provide auxiliary, auxiliary education for children with dyslexia.

The passion to help children teach literacy in children with dyslexia runs in the family.

Dr. Derryl Brown is Neville’s son and other co-head of the school.

Pupils are taught using a system called morphological approach, which uses a series of icons to create a visual link between meaning and spelling, rather than that students are taught using phoneticity.

For example, for a word in the previous period, they draw a back clock. For an action – or “word” – they draw a spring.

“It works as a visual token to remind us that, with the word -end, no matter how you are going to say it, puts that word in the previous period,” Derryl said.

“And this is the way we teach our students, meaning and spelling first, how you are going to say it comes later because it is very different.”

One student said: “My old school tried to do everything, they gave me special glasses, gave me blue paper, but nothing seemed to work, but I really understood the icon system here Is.

“I felt that a lab is really like a rat, everything is surprised at me, so it was not very good, but everyone has found the same thing here, so you just feel comfortable.”

Another said in his old school that he is “congratulating friends and praised for his achievements and I will not be” now “.

“It was like being a strange duck, it was not great,” he said.

Despite being 90 years old, Dr. Brown has no intention of slowing down.

When asked how he felt about helping hundreds of children over the years, he felt them, he responded with a word.

“Old.”