Nationality New Zealand Name Marie Clay | Role Researcher Children Alan Clay | |
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Full Name Marie Mildred Irwin Occupation Educationist, researcher Books An Observation Survey of, Concepts about print, Becoming literate, Follow Me - Moon, Literacy lessons designed | ||
I am a woman hear my roar by marie clay
Dame Marie Mildred Clay, DBE, FRSNZ (née Irwin; 3 January 1926 – 13 April 2007) was a distinguished researcher from New Zealand known for her work in global educational literacy. She was committed to the idea that children who struggle to learn to read and write can be helped with early intervention. A clinical psychologist, she developed the Reading Recovery intervention programme in New Zealand and expanded it worldwide.
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- I am a woman hear my roar by marie clay
- Discoveries Impact Lung Cancer Research
- Life and career
- Ohio State University
- References
Discoveries & Impact: Lung Cancer Research
Life and career
Marie Mildred Irwin was born in Wellington, New Zealand. She studied education at University of New Zealand, earning a bachelor's degree in 1946 and a master's degree in 1948. After studying clinical child psychology at the University of Minnesota as a Fulbright scholar, Clay received her PhD from the University of Auckland in 1966, where she had been on the faculty since 1960.
She developed the Reading Recovery intervention programme, which was adopted by all New Zealand schools in 1983. In 1985, teachers and researchers from Ohio State University brought Reading Recovery to the United States. Reading Recovery is an early intervention for at-risk students in grade one that is designed to close gaps within an average of 12–20 weeks. The programme is currently used in Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, including Department of Defense Schools. To date, Reading Recovery has played a role in the development of over 1.6 million readers in the United States alone.
In 1982, Clay was inducted into the International Reading Association's Reading Hall of Fame. In 1987, to recognise Marie Clay's 's service and successful leadership in literacy education, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. In 1992, she was elected president of the International Reading Association and was the first non-North American to hold this position.
Her teachers' guidebook, Reading Recovery: Guidelines for Teachers in Training, has sold more than 8 million copies worldwide. She died in Auckland, New Zealand at age 81 following a brief illness.
Ohio State University
Faculty at Ohio State worked with Clay in the early 1980s and she served as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar there in 1984-85. The Ohio State University Board of Trustees approved the Marie Clay Endowed Chair in Reading Recovery and Early Literacy on 4 February 2005.