The CLSP provides professional education to graduate students in the area of Reading and Language Arts. The overall goal of the program is to prepare our students to lead educators and school districts into the best practices of school reform available in the 21st century. They will be knowledgeable proponents of action research and change agents assisting schools in promoting community literacy as well as student performance.

The CLSP prepares graduates to promote literacy in a variety of positions within a school system. Their training will give them the skills to lead staff development, run intervention clinics, chair appropriate departments, manage summer programs, write grants or provide all of these services in single school settings. Students will study reading and language from a much broader perspective than that of a classroom teacher. Study will include systemic evaluation and programming, the training and supervision of professionals and paraprofessionals and the utilization of community resources. Further, students are expected to develop competence through a supervised summer school practicum in an urban setting and a clinical experience in a university-based diagnosis and remediation center (clinic). Graduates will be prepared to assume the leadership role in any school system seeking expertise in the area of Reading and Language Arts, to perform independent research or to pursue doctoral study.

The CLSP will serve both full-time and part-time students. The program will be available to certified teachers with a Master's degree and a minimum of 20 months classroom experience as a teacher, intern, or degreed paraprofessional prior to graduation. Portions of the CLSP satisfy course requirements for the Remedial Reading and Remedial Language Arts Certification as described in Sec. 10-145d-480, 481,482,483,484 (Certification Code 102).

Plan of Study

Sequence I: 9 Credits	Institution Completed/Year  Planned Semester/Year	Offering
EDR 505 Early Reading and Language Arts Success (PK-3)* prerequisite ED 413		FA SP  SU
EDR 507 Developmental Reading and Language Arts (4-6)* prerequisite ED 413		FA SP  SU
EDR 510 Content Area Reading Instruction (7-12)*		FA SP  SU

 

Sequence II: 12 Credits	Institution Completed/Year  Planned Semester/Year	Offering
EDR 540 Advanced Diagnosis and Remediation I* By permission ONLY		FA  SP
EDR 545 Assessment and Evaluation: CT Model*  By permission ONLY		SP   SU
EDR 550 Clinical Experience I (University Clinic)* prerequisite EDR 540		SP   SU
EDR 555 Clinical Experience II (Public School Clinic)* prerequisite EDR 550		FA  SU

Completion of Sequence I and Sequence II is required to continue into Sequence III

Sequence III: 12 Credits	Institution Completed/Year  Planned Semester/Year	Offering
EDR 527 Organization, Admin. & Supervision: Reading Prof.**  prerequisite EDR 555		FA
EDR 541 Advanced Diagnosis and Remediation II** prerequisite EDR 555		SP
EDR 691 Practicum in Consulting**  prerequisite EDR 555		FA
EDR 692 Applied Reading and Language Arts Research**  prerequisite EDR 691		SP

 

Sequence IV: 3 Credits	Institution Completed/Year  Planned Semester/Year	Offering
EDR 520 Methods of Teaching and Evaluating Writing Processes		SP   SU
EDR 525 Methods and Materials for Teaching Second Language Learners		FA   SU
EDR 560 Children’s Literature		FA SP  SU
EDR 562 Middle School Literature		SP
EDR 564 Young Adult Literature		FA
EDR 565 Seminar in Poetry Education		Intensive
EDR 570 Reading and Language Arts Research Seminar		TBA
EDR 580 Reading Interventions		Intensive
EDR 615 Grant Writing		Intensive
EDR 620 Utilizing Technology in Reading Instruction		Intensive
EDR 690 Teaching Fellowship		TBA

Notes: Courses with an “*” are required for 102 certification. Courses with an “**” required for 097 certification beyond 102 certification.