Reading Teacher License (PI 34.082)
A Reading Teacher license is a supplementary (teaching) license.
A Reading Teacher license authorizes an individual to have a specific assignment to teach reading in kindergarten through grade 12. To be eligible for the Reading Teacher license, candidates must meet all of the following requirements:
- Complete an approved program
- Receive institutional endorsement for a reading teacher license
- Eligible to hold a Wisconsin license to teach or completion of an approved teacher education program
- Two years of successful regular classroom teaching experience
- Is proficient in teaching reading
- Complete a clinical program in teaching reading, which includes experience with all of the following content areas:
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- Developmental reading for pupils in kindergarten through grade 12
- Assessment and instructional techniques for readers with special needs
- Language development
- Specific Learning Disabilities
- Content area reading
- Literature for children or adolescents
Reading Specialist License (PI 34.070)
A Reading Specialist license is an administration license.
A Reading Specialist license authorizes an individual to have a specific assignment to direct early childhood through grade 12 reading programs, work with reading teachers, classroom teachers, administrators, and others as a resource teacher in reading. To be eligible for the Reading Specialist license, candidates must meet all of the following requirements:
- Complete an approved program
- Receive institutional endorsement for a reading specialist license
- Eligible to hold a Wisconsin license to teach or completion of an approved teacher education program in kindergarten through grade 12
- Complete three years (e.g., six semesters) of successful regular classroom teaching experience in any grade
- Hold a Reading Teacher license under PI 34.082
- Complete a Master’s degree with a major emphasis in reading and demonstrated expertise in all the following content areas:
- Guiding and directing a kindergarten through grade 12 program
- Field experience in kindergarten through grade 12 reading programs
- Research related to reading
- Supervision of instruction
- Content area reading for the reading specialist