Reading Endorsement, Certificate (online)

The Reading Endorsement Certificate program prepares educators for the Ohio K-12 Reading Endorsement. The sequence of four courses provides theoretical and practical knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to provide evidence-based reading and writing instruction and intervention. By completing this certificate, students will complete required coursework to apply for the Ohio K-12 Reading Endorsement and be prepared to take the Ohio Assessments for Educators necessary to add the endorsement to their professional teaching license. Following completion of the certificate, courses may be applied to the M.Ed. degree in reading if the student has obtained regular admission to the Graduate College. 

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

1. Critique theoretical models that inform reading acquisition as well as the cognitive and neurological processes involved with language and literacy development.
2. Analyze the evolving body of research in multiple literacy-related fields to inform comprehensive reading instruction that meets the needs of diverse learners.
3. Examine characteristics, strengths, and needs of readers along the continuum of skills and abilities, including students with dyslexia and other reading disabilities, English learners, and emergent bilinguals to provide effective instruction with appropriate interventions and enrichments.
4. Evaluate reading and writing assessments (i.e., screening, diagnostic, progress monitoring, classroom assessment) for their utility in differentiating core instruction and planning for intervention.
5. Design Explicit and Systematic Literacy Instruction that incorporates evidence-based instruction in the domains of word recognition and language comprehension and fosters an exploration of the relationships among phonological awareness, phonics, advanced word study, fluency, and comprehension.
6. Design Explicit and Systematic Writing Instruction that enables students to access and demonstrate a command of writing complex text structures, while incorporating foundational skills (handwriting and spelling) as well as facilitating reading comprehension as students write about the texts they read.
7. Assess instructional practices and interventions that support students across three tiers of reading instruction.

Admission Requirements

Deadline for Summer Term is two weeks before Summer Session 1.
By completing this certificate you will complete the coursework required to apply for the ODE Reading Endorsement. You also earn the BGSU Reading Endorsement Certificate and this will post to your BGSU transcript showing that you have completed 15 hours (5 courses) of reading graduate credit hours.After completing this coursework, you will need to take the OAE 038 and OAE 039 test to add the endorsement to your license. For additional information, go to Reading (Subtests I & II) (038/039) - Ohio Assessments for Educator. Please contact Dr. John Sorg for teaching licensure questions at jsorg@bgsu.edu. Note: Students who earned an Alternative License cannot add the Reading Endorsement to their license until they convert their alternative license to the 5-year professional license.
Additional Documents required:
Submit scores from the appropriate PRAXIS II, or Ohio Assessments for Educators (OAE) or edTPA test. Your test score will be waived if you have an earned Master’s degree. Acceptable Praxis II and OAE scores include:

• Praxis II - 0521; 0522; 0523; 0524; 0621/5621; 0622/5622; 0623/5623; 0624/5624
• OAE 001; OAE 002; OAE 003; OAE 004

• Upload Reading Program Worksheet
• Upload copy of Teaching Licensure

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