Add-on Licensure
Literacy (Reading) Online

Program Description

Overview

The Literacy (Reading) Online Add-on Licensure Program is designed to help practicing classroom and special teachers of reading, writing and language arts to contribute to positive change in how students are taught. These contributions are guided by understandings of the psychology of reading and writing as well as social, cultural, political and physical/physiological aspects of literacy development.

In North Carolina, Reading is an add-on license for teaching reading and the related language arts in kindergarten through twelfth grades. The program provides leadership in formulating sound, research-based, differentiated literacy programs and daily instruction, including a variety of ways of teaching as well as refined diagnostic processes and assessment.

How Coursework Is Offered

The program relies upon online instructional techniques and technology (Technology Requirements), including synchronous- and asynchronous-time online course sessions. In synchronous-time sessions students meet together with the faculty instructor for designated periods of time each week. The instructor teaches using a web cam, and all students can see and hear him or her. Synchronous class sessions are held as if they were face-to-face, including PowerPoint presentations, video-clips, demonstration teaching, on the spot small-group discussion among students and question-answer periods. Asynchronous-time assignments involve student discussions and other activities.

Additionally, we provide maximal, nonjudgmental, support to program participants in practica and other course work through the use of web cams that are loaned to students for their classrooms. Our aim is to coach participants as they learn about reading and writing instruction, diagnosis, and assessment, through a wide array of teacher support mechanisms, including students viewing one another teach, watching the course instructor teach, and videotaping classroom sessions for later synchronous or asynchronous discussion. Interactive online delivery allows the program to retain the considerable benefits of direct contact amongst students and faculty instructors, while avoiding the challenge of commuting over long distances.

Furthermore, the synchronous- and asynchronous-time online sessions enable courses to be offered after school hours and/or on weekends.

The 18-hour program can be completed in four academic semesters and two summer semesters.

Licensure Requirements

To receive the NC license students must successfully complete all courses, satisfactorily complete midpoint, exit criteria, and synthesis and evaluation statements, and achieve a passing score on the recommended Praxis Exam.


Current Licensure Praxis Exam
If you currently possess “Highly Qualified” status “A” licensure in a teaching area: Introduction to the Teaching of Reading (10200) The test number is also referred to as 200 and 0200.
If you currently have “Highly Qualified” status “M” licensure in a teaching area:

Please note: If you have a master’s degree, but do not have “M” licensure in a teaching area, you will take the 10200 exam and receive “A” licensure. 		Reading Specialist (20300)
This test number is also referred to as 300 and 0300.

 

Admissions

An individual may be admitted to the program if she or he: 1) holds at least a bachelor's degree and 2) holds, or is eligible for, NC teaching licensure or licensure in a related educational areas, such as Speech and Language (either initial or advanced).

Students must earn no more than one grade of L (low pass) and/or no F grades. A second L or any F will make the student ineligible to register for further classes in the program. Students have five years to complete the program.

No more than 20% of the total number of required program hours may be transferred into a licensure program. No courses may be transferred in that precede the date of program enrollment by five years.

Program Contact

Mollie Lloyd, Program Coordinator
lloydm@email.unc.edu
(919) 843-5725