RLL 561A Teacher Leader of Early Literacy Practicum I

Teacher leader candidates will develop expertise in administering, scoring, and interpreting diagnostic assessments, in designing and delivering individualized literacy lessons for low achieving diverse learners in the primary grades while collaborating with teacher teams and school administrators in an elementary school setting. Candidates will receive and respond to coaching visits within a supervised practicum. They will tutor children using an individually designed literacy lesson framework, collect and analyze individual student data and response to instruction in order to develop an in-depth understanding of early literacy learning. Enrollment in this course requires school partnership agreement with NLU Reading Recovery Center for Literacy. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): None. 3 semester hours

Credits

3