Reading Endorsement Course Three
This online and blended model class is a seminar in reading that accompanies a 20-hour in-class practical application piece. Participants will extend competency developed during the first and second courses of the reading endorsement. This course emphasizes the principles, practices and applications of a variety of reading assessments for students with different learning abilities and neess. This course is designed to extend and expand participants’ knowledge of addressing reading problems in the classroom. The course will focus specifically on current research, issues, materials, approaches, and assessment of teaching reading, and continue to investigate the identification and correction of classroom reading problems, organizing for instruction, and meeting the special needs of learners through differentiated classroom practices. Teacher/Candidate Prerequisites (Reading)
Georgia Teacher Certification (Valid clear-renewable certificate) Currently employed by a Georgia School System Recommendations from your school system Professional Learning Director (Coordinator) and your building principal Reading Endorsement Program Course-of-Studies Sequence Required Courses:
Foundations of Teaching Reading in a Diverse Society (50 contact hours) (Previously Known as Emergent Literacy: Foundations of Reading in a Diverse Society) Diagnosis and Correction of Reading Difficulties (50 contact hours) (Previously Known as Identifying & Correcting Classroom Reading Problems) Reading and Literacy Across the Curriculum (50 contact hours) (Previously Known as Problems in Teaching Reading: Methods & Materials)
Audience: Teachers who have completed Reading Endorsement Courses One and Two
Textbook information: Serravallo, J. (2015). The reading strategies book: Your everything guide to developing skilled readers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. | 