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This supplementary certificate offers primary grade teachers, preschool teachers and para-educators greater background in the development, assessment and instruction of literacy for young children, native speakers of English and English language learners.
Administrators and intermediate grade teachers have also found this program a great way to solidify their understandings of initial literacy development to help them best meet the needs of struggling learners in the upper grades..
Why This Early Literacy Program?
This program is designed for teachers who:
- Want to improve overall expertise and skill.
- Lack formal credentials needed to adequately serve a diverse classroom.
- Require schedule flexibility.
This certificate program allows teachers to take 9 semester credits in the specialty area of early literacy and apply these credits directly toward a full master’s degree in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis in reading and writing, while simultaneously fulfilling the requirements toward a Colorado Reading Teacher Endorsement.
You’ll learn how linguistic and cultural diversity affect students' learning and how to tailor your instructions accordingly. You’ll also learn how to create rich environments in which learners experience purposeful language, both orally and literary.
Admission Requirements
You are required to have a Bachelor’s degree to apply to the Early Literacy Certificate program. A K-6 teaching license is not required, since this program would be appropriate for early childhood teachers and paraprofessionals.
To sign up for this program is easy. If you are not currently an active UC Denver student, to be accepted into this program you need to submit the Continuing and Professional Education Online Pre-Registration form. It takes a few days to be assigned a student number and pin, but once you have them, you just need to register. If you are currently an active student at UCD, all you need to do is register.
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