Remedial Reading and Language Arts Certificate
The overall goal of the program is to prepare candidates to serve as literacy leaders in their schools and districts. They will be knowledgeable in all aspects of curriculum, assessment, and instruction and will provide guidance to the school and community in shaping local literacy programs. They should represent the profession through participation at local, regional, and national conferences and endeavor to share their growing literacy expertise with colleagues, administration and the community.
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The Sixth-Year Degree in Literacy provides professional education to master’s degree prepared teachers in the area of Reading & Language Arts. Candidates will study reading and language from a much broader perspective than that of a classroom teacher. Their training will give them the skills to lead staff development, run intervention clinics, chair appropriate departments, manage summer programs, write grants and to provide these services in school settings.
The goal of the program is to prepare candidates to serve as literacy leaders in their schools and districts. Graduates will be knowledgeable in all aspects of curriculum, assessment and instruction and will provide guidance to the school and community in shaping local literacy programs.
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For more information, fill out the form below or contact Whitney Kolwicz at 203-365-4716 or kolwiczw@sacredheart.edu.
This course examines the fundamentals of a comprehensive and evidence-based literacy program for the diverse learner in today's classroom, focusing on foundations of reading and the integration of story, diologic conversation, and writing.
This course focuses on evidence-based literacy teaching in the middle grades in culturally responsive and sustaining ways. The role of knowledge building in reading comprehension, comprehension strategies, vocabulary knowledge, advanced word reading skill development, and fluency development is explored.
This course focuses on a disciplinary approach to literacy instruction and the habits of mind through which experts in the discipline communicate in reading and writing. Incorporating evidence-based methods to differentiate instruction for today's diverse learners, course participants use multimodal and digital pedagogies to reflect on their practice as they develop standards-based lessons, into which academic and domain-specific language is embedded. Required for secondary education and literacy candidates.
This course explores the selection, administration, and interpretation of a variety of criterion and norm-referenced assessments that effectively utilize screening, progress monitoring, diagnostic, and outcome measures to evaluate student reading performance.
Literacy leaders are often charged with the technical, organizational, and substantive aspects of literacy data at the grade, school, or district level. This course will support candidates in how to establish, grow, and maintain a culture of inquiry and data use that can inform decisions that impact literacy teaching and learning to improve the literacy achievement of all students.
Candidates assess a struggling student in their practice, design intervention, and use diagnostic teaching in working with the student, utilizing a web-based platform for recording student and teacher interactions.
This is the second of two clinical courses in which candidates provide virtual literacy intervention to small groups of children in a public school setting, which includes multiple opportunities for candidates to discuss their practices through collaborative problem-solving and peer coaching.