PI 3, WISCONSIN LICENSES - Reading

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Note: Chapter PI 3 as it existed on June 30, 2004 was repealed effective July 1, 2004. See Chapter PI 34 for replacement rules.

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Subchapter VI - Reading

PI 3.23 Reading teacher

PI 3.24 Reading specialist

Subchapter VI - Reading

PI 3.23 Reading teacher - 316.

Any person who has a specific assignment to teach reading shall hold a reading teacher license. Effective July 1, 1985, a regular reading teacher license to teach kindergarten through grade 12 shall be issued to an applicant who has completed an approved program and who has received the institutional endorsement for the reading teacher license and who meets all of the following requirements:

(1) Eligibility to hold a Wisconsin license to teach or completion of an approved teacher education program.

(2) Two years of successful regular classroom teaching experience.

(3) At least 18 semester credits with at least 12 of those credits taken beyond the bachelor's degree. The 18 semester credits shall include a practicum in teaching reading at the elementary level and at the middle/secondary level and shall include course work in all of the following:

(a) Developmental reading for grades kindergarten through 12.

(b) Assessment and instructional techniques for readers with special needs.

(c) Language development.

(d) Learning disabilities.

(e) Content area reading.

(f) Literature for children or adolescents.

History: Cr. Register, April, 1988, No. 388, eff. 5-1-88; am. (intro.), Register, March, 1992, No. 435, eff. 4-1-92.

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PI 3.24 Reading specialist - 317.Any person who directs kindergarten through grade 12 reading programs or works with reading teachers, classroom teachers, administrators, and others as a resource teacher in reading shall hold a reading specialist license. Effective July 1, 1985, a regular reading specialist license may be issued to an applicant who has completed an approved program and who has received the institutional endorsement for the reading specialist license, and who meets all of the following requirements:

(1) Eligibility to hold a Wisconsin reading teacher license.

(2) A master's degree with a major emphasis in reading or at least a 30 graduate semester credit program equivalent to the master's degree with a minimum of 15 graduate semester credits which include all of the following:

(a) Guiding and directing the kindergarten through grade 12 reading program.

(b) Field experience in kindergarten through grade 12 reading programs.

(c) Research related to reading.

(d) Supervision of instruction.

(e) Content area reading for the reading specialist.

History: Cr. Register, April, 1988, No. 388, eff. 5-1-88.

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