Reading Recovery is a school-based professional development model. Reading Recovery Teacher Training is available to educators:
- Who currently work in elementary schools and can teach Reading Recovery for 2.5–3 hours per day, five days a week
- Who have access to an approved, regional Reading Recovery training site
- Whose affiliated school's administration is committed to implementing
Reading Recovery as its first-grade literacy intervention
Approved Reading Recovery Teacher Training Sites:
As a Reading Recovery Teacher-in-Training, you will:
- Participate
in a weekly, graduate-level course taught by a registered Teacher
Leader for a full academic year at an approved, district-level training
site
- Work with at least four Reading Recovery children daily and fulfill other district-prescribed roles
- Observe
your peers, and teach Reading Recovery lessons for your peers to
observe, at the training site during weekly class sessions
- Gain
experience describing teacher-student behaviors and developing
moment-to-moment decision-making skills to inform your instruction
- Work with your school principal and other teachers to establish school teams to monitor the Reading Recovery implementation
- Participate in ongoing Reading Recovery professional development led by your site's Teacher Leader
At the conclusion of the year-long training, you will:
- Receive eight graduate credits from Lesley University
- Be a certified Reading Recovery Teacher
School grants for Reading Recovery
training have recently been made available through the Investing in
Innovation (i3) Federal Fund.
As part of the Investing in
Innovation (i3) initiative, the U.S. Education Department has awarded Ohio State University a $55 million grant to scale
up Reading Recovery in partnership with 18 other university training centers. Districts and schools that are in the region
served by Lesley University may apply to take part in this unique grant,
which funds Reading Recovery training and support. This five-year grant ends in 2015. All U.S. schools qualify for i3 funding.
The i3 federal grant funds:
- An entire year of Reading Recovery teacher training, including eight
graduate credits from Lesley University, all professional books and
extensive collection of leveled children's books, as well as materials used
in Reading Recovery teaching, such as an easel and magnetic letters
- A stipend to be used over a two-year period