Massachusetts Reading Specialist Licensure Program Certificate

Bay Path University's Reading and Literacy Instruction program prepares candidates to use evidence-based practices in curriculum, instruction, and assessment for general and specialized education for grades Prek-12. Our program focuses on learning experiences that combine cognitive, neuroscientific, and educational research. These experiences help students build capacity to meet the needs of all learners across diverse settings. We focus on the science of reading so students learn a structured literacy approach to teach reading, writing, and spelling using direct, explicit, systematic, cumulative, diagnostic, and multi-modal principles. Online instruction-led learning experiences include frequent collaboration, guided inquiry, and deliberate practice.

Bay Path's Reading Specialist Licensure Certificate Program: 

• a deep preparation in the structures of language, oral language, phonemic awareness, phonics, spelling, syntax, vocabulary, morphology, text comprehension, written expression, and fluency.
• experiences developing skills to serve in leadership, coaching, and intervention roles.
• the acquisition of knowledge of assessments, curricula, and instructional planning for students with specific learning disabilities, including dyslexia, related disorders of reading and written language, and for second language learners.
• the development of expert-level ability to analyze and synthesize educational research to determine what research is reliable and valid.
• deliberate practice in all courses of study that respects universal design for learning inclusive practices, cultural and linguistic diversity, and backward design.