What is the quality of our kids education today - Giulia Cuzzilla

Early Child Hood Education

Guilia Cuzzila is my son’s tutor, she has been working with him over the past nine months as we have been working to fill some of the gaps and strengthen some of areas of weakness.

Parental Involvement

Over the course of our relationship, I have come to realise that children across the community are experiencing challenges, and whilst this may have always been the case I wanted to talk to Guilia about the educational system, changes, and the myriad of varying philosophies that can make navigating the process as a parent super difficult.

Giulia is a qualified primary school teacher with over a decade of teaching experience. She has experience teaching in a range of settings, including as a TESOL educator in Italy where she taught English to primary and high school students, as well as to adults. She also spent three years teaching Indigenous children of all ages in remote communities in Western Australia where she also gained a post-graduate certificate in Early Childhood Education.

Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and learning difficulties

Through these experiences Giulia came to a deeper understanding of the importance of a structured and systematic approach to the teaching of reading and writing.Giulia has worked privately as an Multisensory Language Specialist for the past five years, teaching children with dyslexia and dysgraphia. She has also trained with Ron Yoshimoto in phonology and morphology. Giulia has a particular interest in developing older students’ writing skills, which includes supporting their understanding of basic sentence structure, to helping students to clearly articulate and express themselves in longer stretches of writing.

Early Intervention Services

As Director of The Ranges Learning Centre in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Giulia works with parents navigating the often-overwhelming world of supporting a child with learning differences and advocates for them within the school setting. She performs diagnostic assessments, writes reports to assist parents at home and within schools, and also takes small groups of students.

What to expect in this episode:

(03:45) – Where innovation in education stems from.

(09:45) – What other systems are more effective than English?

(15:52) – The current dilemma with the Australian public school system.

(19:28) – Teaching impact from COVID.

(22:47) – How much different are Australian private schools vs public?

(23:56) – How parents can be proactive with literacy intervention.

(27:50) – Signs that show if your children are struggling with their education.

(31:45) – Habits that parents can do at home to help their kids become literate.

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Follow Giulia:

Website – https://therangeslc.com.au/