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Our Reading Teacher endorsement program
is really a starting point
for focusing on literacy, and so many of our students who come here
really have that passion to help kids with
reading, reading difficulties any form
of challenge that children face with reading they do want to make that
difference
um in the children's lives and so for somebody who's coming and I would say,
if you do have that passion you do want to help a child
to become the reader that the child needs to be
this is definitely the place for you with the reading teacher endorsement.
People who are passionate um when I was a child I always
went under my bed to read and for the greater part of my childhood I would
just read and read and read and my mom could never get me to do housework for
example and
I say to teachers if you're not passionate about this
then don't do it. Teachers who I have seen who've succeeded in the program are
passionate teachers they do we know that there is a need whether it's with a
language learner
or with just a student who is struggling with text they want to make that
difference and think
that is is going to be the unique identifying marks of
people who will succeed in this program. You would find that many of the reading
teacher endorsement programs are very very similar in content however for the
University of
Illinois we do have that focus on diversity throughout our courses
and so we focus on not only linguistic diversity
but cultural diversity as well and insuring that
as the students progress through each of the courses that they are getting
to see how would this would
for multiple populations want to push to new population
and so I think for other programs where you just have that
emphasis in one or two courses for us it's like
we are going to get this across the board and so that, i think, is what makes our
program very unique
In the job market right now in education
I i don't think that you could never hear anyone say that there is not going
to be a need for reading and so
for a teacher who decides to undertake something like this
I would say go for it because there's not going to be at school that doesn't
need your help
they're not going to be other teachers or
at any point students who do not need you to work with them on a certain skill
and I
if we listen to education today and teachers just talking about
ah the students that they have and how
the levels the reading levels of the students are so low
you do know that yes if you're in a class when you have this endorsement you
can make a difference in the lives of these children not just
at a superficial level but at a level where you know you're making a
difference in so
for even our middle school and high school teachers I say
if you have that reading teacher endorsement you teaching math for
example but you knowing how to make
that math accessible to students who just
they don't have the skills they just cant access the content