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Dr Simmone Pogorzelski

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Mobile: 0404 878 495
Email: s.pogorzelski@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  

Simmone is a lecturer in the School of Education.

Background

Simmone Pogorzelski is a teacher educator with over 20 years of experience working in a range of research, training, and development roles, primarily in the field of literacy. She has supported schools and teachers to implement effective reading instruction in Western Australia, Victoria, and NSW, and led the development of early literacy and reading intervention programs that have achieved national scale.

Simmone’s research interests focus on language and literacy development in the early years of school, effective reading instruction, assessment, and intervention. As part of her doctoral research, Simmone is investigating the role of text and the methods used to measure progress in beginning readers in the first year of school.

Current Teaching

  • LAN1260 - Spoken Language in Primary School
  • LAN2240 - English in the Early Years of Primary School
  • LAN6240 - Literacy in the Early Years of School
  • LAN4131 - Teaching Reading in the Primary Classroom
  • SOL6120 - Science of Reading Instruction
  • EDU6584 - Strategies for Learning Difficulties

Professional associations

  • 2022 - Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA)
  • 2018 - Learning Difficulties Australia (LDA)
  • 2011 - Dyslexia SPELD Foundation

Awards and recognition

  • 2018 - Semi-finalist, Asia Pacific - Three Minute Thesis
  • 2017 - Edith Cowan University Higher Degree by Research Scholarship
  • 2017 - Susan Holland Scholarship
  • 2017 - Winner, Edith Cowan University - Three Minute Thesis
  • 2001 - Lee Mills Education Award (Australian Association of Special Education)

Research areas and interests

  • Beginning reading instruction
  • The role of texts in early reading
  • Assessment of reading difficulties
  • Reading and spelling intervention

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Edith Cowan University, 2024.
  • Primary, Edith Cowan University, 2019.
  • Master of Special Education, Macquarie University, 2003.
  • Bachelor of Psychology, Murdoch University, 1998.
  • Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) Supporting Major in English, Edith Cowan University, 1996.

Research Outputs

2021

Journal Articles

  • Taylor, A., Calder, S., Pogorzelski, S., Koch, L. (2021). A preliminary evaluation of a manualised intervention to improve early literacy skills in children with Developmental Language Disorder. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 37(3), 321-336. https://doi.org/10.1177/02656590211052001.
  • Pogorzelski, S., Main, S., Hill, S. (2021). A survey of Western Australian teachers’ use of texts in supporting beginning readers. Issues in Educational Research, 31(1), 204-223. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/10171.

Research Student Supervision

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