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This section contains the six IRA standards and their sub-standards. Click on a standard, you will see a list of sub-standards beneath. Each sub-standard is on a separate page.

For each sub-standard, you will upload a progress artifact from your course work as evidence of meeting this sub-standard. You will also need to describe the context in which the artifact was created, as well as a writing a reflection on how this artifact demonstrates your learning, development, achievement or the impact of your learning at Hunter College on your teaching and on your students’ learning.

The checklist below contains IRA's Standards for Reading Specialist/Literacy Coach. At the end of each semester, as you select/upload artifacts from each course you took, please fill the chart with the name of the artifact(s) and the course(s) in which they were created.

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IRA Standards for Reading Specialist/Literacy Coach (2010)

Standard 1:Foundational Knowledge

Candidates understand the theoretical and evidence-based foundations of reading and writing processes and instruction.

Substandards

Artifact Name

Course

1.1 Understand major theories and empirical research that describe the cognitive, linguistic, motivation and sociocultural foundations of reading and writing development, processes, and components, including word recognition, language comprehension, strategic knowledge, and reading-writing connections.

 Observational Anaylysis

 EDLIT 735

1.2 Understand the historically shared knowledge of the profession and changes over time in the perceptions of reading and writing development, processes, and components.

Literature Review

 EDLIT 745

1.3 Understand the role of professional judgment and practical knowledge for improving all students’ reading development and achievement. 

Equity and Advocacy Plan

 EDLIT 730

Standard 2: Curriculum and Instruction:

Candidates use instructional approaches, materials, and an integrated, comprehensive, balanced curriculum to support student learning in reading and writing.

Substandards

Artifact Name

Course

2.1: Use foundational knowledge to design or implement an integrated, comprehensive, and balanced curriculum.

Coaching Assignment Lesson Plan

 EDLIT 734: Literacy Through the Disciplines

2.2: Use appropriate and varied instructional approaches, including those that develop word recognition, language comprehension, strategic knowledge, and reading-writing connections.

Expository Text Demonstration Lesson

 EDLIT 734: Literacy Through the Disciplines

2.3: Use a wide range of texts (e.g., narrative, expository, and poetry) from traditional print, digital, and online resources.

Expository Text Demonstration Lesson

 EDLIT 734: Literacy Through the Disciplines

Standard 3:Assessment and Evaluation

Candidates use a variety of assessment tools and practices to plan and evaluate effective reading and writing instruction.

Substandards

Artifact Name

Course

3.1: Understand types of assessments and their purposes, strengths, and limitations.

Log 1: Reading Interview

EDLIT 731: Literacy Assessment

3.2: Select, develop, administer, and interpret assessments, both traditional print and electronic, for specific purposes.

School Presentation

EDLIT 731: Literacy Assessment

3.3: Use assessment information to plan and evaluate instruction.

Clinical Activities: Report-Instructional Suggestions 

EDLIT 731: Literacy Assessment

3.4: Communicate assessment results and implications to a variety of audiences.

Clinical Activities: Report- Summary and Interpretation

EDLIT 731: Literacy Assessment

Standard 4: Diversity

Candidates create and engage their students in literacy practices that develop awareness, understanding, respect, and a valuing of differences in our society.

Substandards

Artifact Name

Course

4.1: Recognize, understand, and value the forms of diversity that exist in society and their importance in learning to read and write. 

Equity and Advocacy Plan

EDLIT 730 Language, Literacy and Culture

4.2: Use a literacy curriculum and engage in instructional practices that positively impact students’ knowledge, beliefs, and engagement with the features of diversity.

Fieldwork Response #6- Reading Inventory

EDLIT 730 Language, Literacy and

Culture

4.3: Develop and implement strategies to advocate for equity.

Grant Proposal: Project Overview

EDLIT 745 Literacy Research for Change

Standard 5:Literate Environment

Candidates create a literate environment that fosters reading and writing, instructional practices, approaches, and methods, curriculum materials, and the appropriate use of assessments.

Substandards

Artifact Name

Course

5.1: Design the physical environment to optimize students’ use of traditional print, digital, and online resources in reading and writing instruction.

Lesson Plan

EDLIT 734: Literacy Through the Disciplines

5.2: Design a social environment that is low-risk, includes choice, motivation, and scaffolded support to optimize students’ opportunities for learning to read and write.

Lesson Plan

EDLIT 734: Literacy Through the Disciplines

5.3: Use routines to support reading and writing instruction (e.g., time allocation, transitions from one activity to another; discussions, and peer feedback)

Lesson Plan

EDLIT 734: Literacy Through the Disciplines

5.4: Use a variety of classroom configurations (i.e., whole class, small group, and individual) to differentiate instruction.

Lesson Plan

EDLIT 734: Literacy Through the Disciplines

Standard 6:Professional Learning and Leadership

Candidates recognize the importance of, demonstrate, and facilitate professional learning and leadership as a career-long effort and responsibility.

Substandards

Artifact Name

Course

6.1: Demonstrate foundational knowledge of adult learning theories and related research about organizational change, professional development, and school culture.

Presentation Handout

EDLIT 745:

Literacy Assessment

6.2: Display positive dispositions related to their own reading and writing, and pursue the development of individual professional knowledge and behaviors.

Analysis of the Demonstration Lesson

 EDLIT 734: Literacy Through the Disciplines

6.3: Participate in, design, facilitate, lead, and evaluate effective and differentiated professional development programs.

Coaching Experience

 EDLIT 734: Literacy Through the Disciplines

6.4: Understand and influence local, state, or national policy decisions.

Grant Proposal

 EDLIT 745: Literacy Assessment

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