Cool customer - Dyslexia a gift, not a disadvantage [Guardian.co.uk]
- Published: 27 October 2009
The first thing that new students learn from Edward Vickerman is that he won't be writing on the classroom board. And that marking of their work is going to be different from anything they've had before.
"He can't do it 'properly'," says 14-year-old Adam Brown, one of an army of Vickerman fans who have helped the 26-year-old to triumph as the country's outstanding new teacher of the year. "But he's got his own brilliant system. It's cool."
The drive, which has classrooms buzzing at Freeston enterprise and business college, a comprehensive with 1,000 pupils in Normanton, West Yorkshire, comes from dyslexia; a disadvantage in theory, but for Vickerman and Freeston, a gift.
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