Differentiated Instruction in Reading for K-12 Certified Teachers

Spring 2020

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Registration Deadline – January 10, 2020

Q: Do you sometimes feel something is missing in how to meet the individual needs of your students to help them become strategic, enthusiastic readers?
Q: Do you want to know more about best instructional practices in diagnosis, intervention and differentiated instruction in reading?
Q: Are you ready to move from the Standard to Professional level of certification but still need the reading course required by the State of Michigan?
A: RDG 4913 – Diagnosis and Differentiated Instruction in Reading*

This course is designed to be a “hybrid” learning experience, with some assignments being completed online while retaining the benefits of several in-person class meetings on campus. Class meetings take place on the main campus of Rochester College in Richardson Center, RAC 117 on Saturdays, 12–3 p.m., on the following dates:

The course shell will open January 24, 2020 to students enrolled in the course.
Class begins January 25, 2020 and runs through April 18, 2020..

Elements of the course include:

• Collaboration and sharing knowledge with other educators
• Adapting course curriculum to teachers’ classroom instructional needs
• Small size class sessions grounded in participants’ questions, inquiry and experimentation, as well as research.
• A required literacy practicum where students are assessed and provided with differentiated literacy instruction. A written case study is developed from this experience. Each teacher is responsible to find his or her own students for the practicum.

Tuition for this three semester hour course is $1,188.
*Beginning July 1, 2009, all teachers advancing to the Professional Education Certificate must have completed 3-semester credits of reading diagnostics and remediation, which includes a field experience, in accordance with Michigan Revised School Code MCL 380.1531(4)

For additional course information or questions, please contact Lynne Stewart at lestewart@rc.edu or at 248-218-2092.

Note: This course is offered only in the spring semester.

The ESL endorsement is a 24 credit hour program designed specifically with K-12 certified teachers in mind.

The growth of business and immigration to the U.S. has created a critical need for Michigan’s growing population of students with limited English proficiency. The Michigan Department of Education reports there were 90,000 English learners enrolled in Michigan’s school system in 2017. Oakland, Macomb and Wayne County account for 66,000 of these students.

Rochester University is now offering an ESL Endorsement in response to this critical need in southeast Michigan.

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