Reading & Language Arts
Specialist Credential
Division of Curriculum and Instruction
CSULA, Charter
College of Education
The Reading and Language Arts Specialist Credential is an advanced credential above and beyond the Multiple Subject or Single Subject credential. This credential also fulfills the requirements for the CSULA Master of Arts Degree in Education: Option in (K-12) Reading. With careful planning, through the first half of this program students can also earn the California Reading Certificate. This program fulfills the requirements of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, the International Reading Association's Guidelines for Reading Specialists and the State of California requirements for the Reading & Language Arts Specialist Credential. Since this program is NCATE approved, graduates may be able to take advantage of interstate reciprocity to many states within the US; contact receiving state departments of education for more information. THIS READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS SPECIALIST CREDENTIAL PROGRAM IS CLOSELY LINKED TO THE MASTER OF ARTS DEGREE: OPTION IN (k-12) READING AND THE CALIFORNIA READING CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS. WITH CAREFUL PLANNING, STUDENTS CAN EARN ALL THREE CONCURRENTLY. (SEE GRADUATE READING PROGRAM ADVISOR FOR MORE INFORMATION).
As graduates OF THE Reading & Language Arts Specialist Credential program, one may find work as:
- Reading & Language Arts teachers at the K-12 level
- Reading & Language Arts Specialists in public and private
schools
- Developers of Reading and Language Arts curriculum
- Reading and Language Arts Specialists at the County Office of
Education and/or the School District Office
- 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
- Authors of Reading and/or Language Arts textbooks
- Reading and Language Arts consultants for publishing
companies
Program Outcomes
Students will be authorized to:
- DEVELOP AND COORDINATE READING PROGRAMS AT THE SCHOOL, DISTRICT, OR COUNTY LEVEL IN CALIFORNIA.
- Select and adapt reading and language arts instruction materials
- Plan & conduct reading & WRITING staff development.
- Assess student progress & monitor student achievement in
reading and writing.
- Provide direct reading and writing intervention work with
students in any grade level K-12, or in classes organized for adults.
- 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 and 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.
- Develop analysis and reflection skills FOR written and oral communication.
- 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 Reading & Language Arts Specialist Credential 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 THE Reading & Language Arts Specialist Credential 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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Program Description
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Scholarship Information
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/ccoe/scholarships.htm