Literacy Instruction (M.Ed.)

This option is designed to meet the competency requirements for Washington State and Adventist Education endorsements as a reading specialist. Additionally, the state requires graduates to pass the following: the secondary methods course, the National Evaluation Series (NES), and a Pedagogy Performance Assessment (PPA). The *Individualized Area option is also available for non-certified applicants outside the K-12 system.

Prerequisites: Teacher certification, a minimum of 18 months of verified satisfactory full-time experience in education prior to awarding of degree, and a current course in reading methods (taken within the past six years).

Basic Courses

EDUC 501	Statistics in Writing	4
EDUC 561	Introduction to Educational Research	4
RELT 566	Issues in Religion and Culture	3
SPED 510	Introduction to Special Education and Inclusive Classrooms	4

Literacy Instruction Core

EDUC 475	Teaching Reading Skills in The Content Areas	3
EDUC 520	Teaching Beginning Literacy	3
EDUC 535/SPED 535	Reading Diagnosis and Remediation	3
EDUC 546	Reading and Writing Assessment	3
EDUC 549	21st Century Literacies	4
ENGL 574	Literature for Children and Young Adults	4
SPED 531	Psychology of Reading	3
WRIT 589	Writing Theory	3
	Approved Electives*	3

Professional Project

EDUC 581	Professional Project	5
Total Credit Hours:		49

*Electives must be chosen in consultation with the student’s advisor.