Course on reading training

Yesterday, over 40 nursery and primary school teachers in Hafnarfjörður attended the K-PALS course, a teaching method for reading training guided by peer support. The course took place at Hraunvallaskóli.

The School Office is organising the course in collaboration with the SÍSL project, which holds the licence for the use and teaching of PALS in Iceland. K-PALS and PALS courses have previously been held for staff of nurseries and primary schools in Hafnarfjörður. Offering a reading instruction and coaching course to teachers in Hafnarfjörður this term is part of the education and leisure services' focus on supporting the reading development of the town's children.

K-PALS is intended for nursery schools and the earliest years of primary school. There is also a PALS programme that follows on from K-PALS and is intended for pupils in the lower and middle years of primary school (Years 2-6). The PALS teaching method for reading instruction is an American approach that has been translated into Icelandic. PALS is an acronym for „Peer Assisting Learning Strategies“, which translates into Icelandic as PÖR AÐ LÆRA SAMAN.