California Reading Certificate
Program
Division of Curriculum and Instruction
CSULA, Charter
College of Education
The California Reading Certificate is an advanced State of California issued certificate above and beyond the Single Subject or Multiple Subject credential. It authorizes the holders to develop and implement reading curriculum, adapt reading content curriculum, and assist classroom teachers at a single school site in California at the grade levels authorized by their basic teaching credential. At CSULA, with careful planning, students may complete the requirements of the California Reading Certificate during the first half of their Reading and Language Arts Specialist Credential program and/or Master of Arts Degree: Option in (K-12) Reading. (SEE GRADUATE READING PROGRAM ADVISOR FOR MORE INFORMATION).
As graduates of THE California Reading Certificate, one may find work as:
- Reading teachers at the K-12 level OF THEIR BASIC TEACHING CREDENTIAL.
- A Reading and Language Arts Specialist in a single public and private school
- Developers of Reading and Language Arts curriculum FOR A SINGLE SCHOOL SITE.
- Educators within informal non-academic environments such as museums, zoos, aquaria, and tutoring clinics.
- Providers of professional development and in-service workshops in Reading and Language Arts FOR A SINGLE SCHOOL SITE.
- Authors of Reading and Language Arts textbooks.
- Reading and Language Arts consultants for publishing companies.
Program Outcomes
Students will:
- DEVELOP AND COORDINATE READING PROGRAMS AT THE SCHOOL, LEVEL IN CALIFORNIA.
- Assist and support classroom teachers in reading and writing instruction and teaching strategies FOR A SINGLE SCHOOL SITE.
- Select and adapt reading and language arts instruction materials FOR A SINGLE SCHOOL SITE.
- Plan & conduct reading & WRITING staff development FOR A SINGLE SCHOOL SITE. Assess student progress & monitor student achievement in reading and writing.
- Increase their confidence to teach Reading and Language Arts.
- Provide direct reading and writing intervention work with students AT THE LEVEL OF THEIR BASIC CREDENTIAL FOR A SINGLE SCHOOL SITE.
- Develop an understanding of current issues, practices and directions in Reading and Language Arts curriculum and the ability to inquire into these.
- Develop knowledge and skills in educational research.
- Develop analysis and reflection skills FOR written and oral communication.
- Identify and analyze topics of importance in current educational conversations and debates for critical issues related to Reading and Language Arts.
- Deepen their commitment to their students and their students’ learning of Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking.
- Increase their confidence to teach Reading and Language Arts.
- Improve their ability to manage and assess their students’ Reading and Language Arts learning.
- Augment their capacity to think reflectively about their teaching of Reading and Language Arts.
- Increase their capacity to become an agent of change in the field of Reading and Language Arts education.
Program Faculty:
As a part of the California Reading Certificate students receive individual advisement and instruction from expert faculty members who combine extensive classroom-teaching experiencee, research, and pre-service and in-service teacher development in the area of Reading and Language Arts. For more information regarding California Reading Certificate Option, contact any EITHER of the program coordinators below:
Dr. Darlene Michener
http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/dmichen
dmichen@calstatela.edu
Dr. Sharon Ulanoff
http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/sulanof
sulanof@calstatela.edu
Application to the Program
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Scholarship Information
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/ccoe/scholarships.htm