Teaching the teachers to teach phonics: Voices from teacher education

We come to this manuscript as experienced Literacy Teacher Educators. Beryl has been a registered primary school classroom teacher for 33 years and a Literacy Teacher Educator for 17 years. Lisbeth has been a registered primary school classroom teacher for 14 years and a Literacy Teacher Educator for 10 years. This article returns commentary to the public suggestion from Synthetic Phonics supporters and those advocating for the proposed Year 1 Phonics Check that Literacy Teacher Educators do not teach preservice teachers how to teach phonics. In the first section of this paper, we overview the accreditation standards for undergraduate and postgraduate Australian Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programs.