Endorsement: Licensed teachers desiring a reading specialist/interventionist credential who want to enhance and broaden both reading specific knowledge, instructional practices and strategies, and other responsibilities in the classroom.
Certificate: Newly licensed teachers who wish to gain advanced literacy training, without pursuing an add-on endorsement to their teaching license.
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Must hold a valid teaching license in order to be recommending for endorsement.
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Participants in the WOU Reading Program will learn the skills and dispositions of a literacy leader who may want to be reading specialist and/or coach This 24-credit graduate post licensure program focuses on connecting reading theory, curriculum, assessment, and strategies to enhance and broaden literacy specific knowledge, instructional practices, and other responsibilities encountered by classroom teachers, resource teachers, and/or reading specialists. The reading specialist certification leads to an add-on endorsement to a teaching license.
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