BoosterBooks programmes have run very successfully in Lancashire since June 2003 and are now available to schools throughout the UK via BoosterBooks Outreach Teachers. We are also in talks to make BoosterBooks available internationally in countries such as Australia and New Zealand.
BoosterBooks mission is to make the programmes available to all ‘learning vulnerable’ children across the United Kingdom by introducing BoosterBooks Outreach Teachers to the BoosterBooks philosophy and sharing our approach towards effective teaching and learning. As a training provider we will enable BoosterBooks Outreach Teachers to run BoosterBooksprogrammes successfully with children of all ages and abilities, including adults.
BoosterBooks staff are committed to providing the best opportunities for children to discover their potential, to experience success, and enjoy their learning.
About The People & Research
The BoosterBooks programmes
have been designed by Kate Nayler, who spent eleven years
working with the learning and behaviour support teams
in Lancashire before working as an educational psychologist.
Professor Alec Webster became involved with BoosterBooks
following his review and endorsement of the programmes
in February, 2004.
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Kate
Nayler
M.Ed. (Ed.Psych.);M.Ed.;B.Ed.;Postgrad.
Dip. Sp.L.D (Dyslexia); C.Psychol.
Kate Nayler is the creator of BoosterBooks and also works as a consultant educational psychologist. After teaching in London and Hong Kong she moved to Lancashire where she spent eleven years working with children statemented for specific learning difficulties (dyslexia), moderate learning difficulties, emotional behavioural difficulties and speech and language difficulties, in both mainstream and special primary and secondary schools. She also spent time working with the Area Special Educational Needs Officer as a member of the Pupil Assessment and Monitoring Team which was set up to help implement the Code of Practice.
In 2002, Kate set up The Dyslexia Clinic to provide advice, support and thorough educational assessments for parents of ‘learning vulnerable’ children. BoosterBooks followed almost immediately, as a result of the number of young people who, despite having years of tuition for dyslexia, had made little or no progress.
A great deal of her work has involved teaching, and offering support and advice to teachers to help them meet the needs of the children in the classroom. She has also been involved in providing in-service training for teachers, educational psychologists and education officers.
As a director of BoosterBooks , Kate is actively involved in running the company and training the BoosterBooks Outreach Teachers.
Professor Alec Webster
Alec Webster is the researcher who published ideas about scaffolding around which BoosterBooks have been built. After spending a number of years teaching and working as an educational psychologist he joined Bristol University as Director of the Centre for Literacy Studies in 1994. He has carried out research for the DfES and the Home Office, mostly focused on literacy, children with sensori impairments, and most recently autism. He has published some 20 books and more than 50 journal papers. He is currently Professor of Educational Psychology in the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol.
Geographical Areas BoosterBooks serves
The BoosterBooks training course currently runs from the
BoosterBooks training centre
at Aero Mill in Church, Lancashire for teachers throughout
the UK. Aero Mill is situated 1 mile from Junction 7 of
the M65 and easily accessible for all the regional motorway
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