Becoming a Reading Recovery Teacher or Teacher Leader

Training

Teacher training

Reading Recovery teachers in-training:

• Enroll in a graduate-level course taught weekly after school 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 educational roles as prescribed by the school district.
• Teach for their peers during weekly class sessions in front of a one-way mirror and learn to observe and describe student and teacher behaviors and develop skills in making moment-to-moment decisions to inform instruction.
• Work with the school principal and other teachers in their schools to establish school teams that monitor the Reading Recovery implementation.

Following the training year, Reading Recovery teachers continue to teach a minimum of four children per day and participate in ongoing professional development (continuing contact) which includes observation and discussion of teaching sessions.

Teacher Leader Training

Teacher leaders in-training:

• Enroll in an eighteen-graduate credit, residential program for an academic year at Lesley University, an accredited Reading Recovery university training center.
• Study Reading Recovery procedures which includes working with four children daily.
• Engage in an in-depth study of literacy theories and research including the theoretical foundations of the Reading Recovery program.
• Learn how to train and support Reading Recovery teachers.
• Prepare to work with the site coordinator and other administrators to implement the program at their site.

Following the training year, teacher leaders continue to teach children, train and support Reading Recovery teachers, collect data on children, assure a quality implementation of the program at the site and school level and participate in ongoing professional development.