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Reading Specialist AQ (Queen’s, Spring 2024, Online)

April 8, 2024 to June 7, 2024

  • Category: AQ, Online
  • Region: Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, GTA, Northern Ontario, Outside Ontario, Southern Ontario
  • Topic: Language Arts, Library/Learning Commons, Literacy
  • Grades: Intermediate (grades 7-10), JK-SK, Junior (grades 4-6), Primary (grades 1-3), Senior (grades 11-12)

This Reading Specialist course aims to enable candidates to acquire knowledge of current issues in literacy instruction and their implications for school level curriculum. Participants will have the opportunity to develop an ongoing professional bibliography, an understanding of school and board level leadership through examination of leadership characteristics, exploration of best practices in literacy programming, and planning for effective change initiatives and staff development strategies to improve school and board reading programs.

This leadership course has been developed for teachers who already have a deep level of learning about subject content and pedagogy gained from practical teaching experience, professional reading and previous course work.

Topics in this course include:

– Developing a professional bibliography for effective literacy programming
– Leadership in education and literacy programming
– Leadership in curriculum, including materials, issues, strategies and assessment
– Leadership in communicating effective literacy programming
– Schools That Work
– Improvement Planning.

Please visit website for additional information and registration.