2020-2021 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Elementary Education and Reading Department
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Website: suny.oneonta.edu/elementary-education-and-reading
Program purposes and outcomes: Graduates of these programs have met the educational requirements to receive professional teaching certification in New York State. The Graduate Literacy Education Programs build upon initial skills and knowledge and further develop professional literacy coaches and leaders who are committed to academic and professional excellence, the best research-based teaching practices, and empowerment, respecting diversity and social justice. The faculty are firmly committed to the philosophy that reading is comprehension, and that reading comprehension is a dynamic transactive process of constructing meaning as the reader brings prior knowledge to the text within the context of the reading situation. The programs are aligned to six IRA (2010) Standards.
Standard 1: Foundational Knowledge
Candidates understand the theoretical and evidence-based foundations of reading and writing processes and instruction.
Standard 2: Curriculum and Instruction
Candidates use instructional approaches, materials, and an integrated comprehensive, balanced curriculum to support student learning in reading and writing.
Standard 3: Assessment and Evaluation
Candidates use a variety of assessment tools and practices to plan and evaluate effective reading and writing instruction.
Standard 4: Diversity
Candidates create and engage their students in literacy practices that develop awareness, understanding, respect, and a value of differences in our society.
Standard 5: Literate Environment
Candidates create a literate environment that fosters reading and writing by integrating foundational knowledge, instructional practices, approaches and methods, curriculum materials, and the appropriate use of assessments.
Standard 6: Professional Learning and Leadership
Candidates recognize the importance of, demonstrate and facilitate professional learning and leadership as a career-long effort and responsibility.
Two literacy programs are offered, leading to literacy certification in (Birth - Grade 6) or (Grades 5-12). To ensure quality, students must be admitted to programs before registering for courses, unless they have permission from the graduate director or department chair.
No more than 9 s.h. may be transferred into this program. Courses with grades of “B-” through “F” are not transferable.
Bilingual Education Extension, Pre K-12 – All Grades
Bilingual Education: Clinically-Rich Intensive Institute
Program purposes and philosophy: Appropriately certified bilingual teachers are in high demand. The U.S. Education Department (2014) identified bilingual education and English language acquisition as high-need fields that are experiencing nationwide teacher shortages at all developmental levels. Bilingual teachers work in districts with high numbers of non-native English-speaking students to help them succeed academically in English and in their home language.
The program has been designed to prepare individuals to become effective bilingual practitioners with high levels of competence using two languages as mediums of instruction. Courses in this program lead toward a New York State teaching certification extension annotation in bilingual education. The program is intended for teachers who hold New York State certification for teaching preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle, or secondary education, a special subject, literacy, career and technical education, or students with disabilities, and wish to earn a certification extension in bilingual education. The program is designed to blend on-line preparation with field experiences in the school settings.
Application materials (application form, transcripts, initial certificate) for summer and fall admission must be filed by February 1st for the fall semester and by November 1st for the spring semester.
Decisions on admission to the program are made based on all of the following information plus the admissions committee’s judgment about the applicant’s potential for success in the profession. Admission is competitive and meeting the minimum admission’s criteria does not guarantee acceptance.
Dignity for All Students Act
The Dignity for All Students Act (DASA) requires that all public school employees complete 6 hours of training/coursework that addresses harassment, bullying, and discrimination prevention and intervention. Students in this program are responsible for demonstrating that they have satisfied this requirement. For students who have not completed this training during their undergraduate program, the College provides workshops to satisfy this requirement.
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