Reading Teacher (316) Certification

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Administered by the School of Education Office of Graduate Studies & Professional Development.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION/LICENSURE DISCLOSURE (NC-SARA)

The United States Department of Education requires institutions that provide distance education to disclose information for programs leading to professional certification or licensure about whether each program meets state educational requirements for initial licensure or certification. Following is this disclosure information for this program:

The requirements of this program meet Certification/Licensure in the following states:

Wisconsin

The requirements of this program do not meet Certification/Licensure in the following states:

Not applicable

The requirements of this program have not been determined if they meet Certification/Licensure in the following states:

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming; District of Columbia; American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands

Program Requirements

You must have completed a bachelor’s degree.
You must have a teacher license in another teaching area as determined by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction to enroll in this program.
You must have two years of successful regular classroom teaching experience in addition to coursework for certification.
To receive certification, you must earn 9 prerequisite credits (6 from Area A and 3 from Area B) as described below and 13 credits from core courses. You can take them at the graduate or undergraduate level, but if you are applying these credits towards a master’s degree, they must be at the graduate level.
You must pass the state-mandated Foundations of Reading Test with a score of 240. Teachers who have a Wisconsin “lifetime license” are not required to meet this requirement.
Per DPI certification requirements, you will need to complete a comprehensive reading portfolio to evidence proficiency in the Wisconsin Teaching Standards.
You must meet the state teacher licensing rules which are subject to change at any time due to legislative or licensing changes.

Pathways

This Reading Teacher certification can be completed as a specialization in the Education, MSE program, and if you are pursuing this pathway, you will enroll as a degree seeking student.
This Reading Teacher certification can be taken as certification only, and if you are pursuing this pathway, you will enroll as a non-degree seeking student.

Coursework

Prerequisite Courses

Area A, 6 credits

Take one course from Elementary and one from Secondary.

Elementary (Select one course)

EDUC 309 - Methods/Materials for Teaching Reading II Credits: 3
EDUC 310 - Materials/Methods for Teaching Language Arts Credits: 3
EDUC 718 - Core Components of Teaching Reading Credits: 3

Secondary (Select one course)

EDUC 386 - Literacy in the Secondary School Credits: 3
EDUC 715 - Application and Analysis of Reading Instruction Credits: 3
EDUC 743 - Creating Strategic Readers Across All Contents Credits: 3
ENGL 381 - Reading for the English Teacher Credits: 3 (Undergraduate Level) or
ENGL 581 - Reading for the English Teacher Credits: 3 (Graduate Level)

Area B, 3 credits

Choose from:

EDUC 327 - Teaching Reading to Gifted and Talented Students Credits: 3 (Undergraduate Level) or
EDUC 527 - Teaching Reading to Gifted and Talented Students Credits: 3 (Graduate Level)
EDUC 383 - Educational Assessment Credits: 3
EDUC 706 - Experimental and Statistical Methods in Education Research Credits: 3
ENGL 275 - Children’s Literature Credits: 3
ENGL 375 - Literature for Adolescents Credits: 3 (Undergraduate Level) or
ENGL 575 - Literature for Adolescents Credits: 3 (Graduate Level)

Core Courses 13 credits

All of these courses must be earned within a seven-year period (starting with the beginning of the term the course was approved for your program of study).

EDUC 740 - Reading Teacher Portfolio Credits: 1
EDUC 741 - Improvement in Reading Credits: 3
EDUC 746 - Diagnosis and Evaluation of Reading Abilities Credits: 3
EDUC 747 - Supported Literacy Credits: 3
EDUC 748 - Supported Literacy Practicum Credits: 3