Rg 511 Reflective Reading Education

For my new concentration in Reading Education, I bring experience as an English/language arts teacher at the high school level as well as undergraduate and graduate coursework in literacy education. Currently, I work as a writing co-teacher for high school in Newark, New Jersey. In this role, I co-plan and modify instruction to accommodate the diverse learning needs of students classified as receiving special education services. In this role, I work with many students who are low ability readers. Daily, I work through their challenges in accessing the curriculum due to the variety of their literacy abilities. In the next year, I anticipate transition from writing and special education to a lead general education position in English. This will
Many of the students I serve have diagnosed disabilities in reading comprehension and oral expression. Therefore, I anticipate that the course “RDG 511 – Corrective Reading Instruction,” will give me new approaches to meeting this students learning needs. The course “RDG 516 – Reading: The Five Pillars” will also potentially elaborate on the knowledge I gained in READ 7131, where I encountered theories of literacy and literacy instruction. By exploring the “five pillars” of literacy in more depth, I anticipate that I will better understand how these elements collaborate to create a literate individual. I entered the Graduate Certificate program in English in order to deepen my content knowledge in literature, however, as an educator I could certainly benefit from new approaches to sharing that knowledge with my students. Through a concentration in Reading Education, I anticipate that I will be able to incorporate new strategies and approaches to sharing my knowledge with my students.
4. Learning Objectives
Some learning objectives I hope to meet with this new coursework