Bay Path University's online Reading and Literacy Instruction program prepares program candidates to use scientific, research-based practices in curriculum, instruction, and assessment for general and specialized education across grades PreK-12. The program emphasizes a comprehensive approach to learning that integrates cognitive, neuroscientific, and educational research with a focus on the Science of Reading. Program candidates learn a structured literacy approach to teaching reading, writing, and spelling through direct, explicit, systematic, cumulative, diagnostic, and multi-modal practices. Online instructor-led learning experiences include frequent collaboration, guided inquiry, and deliberate practice.
The Reading and Literacy Instruction program offers a Master of Science in Education (MSEd) and an Education Specialist Degree (EdS), an advanced degree beyond a master’s.
Bay Path's Reading & Literacy Instruction Provides:
a deep preparation in the structures of language, oral language, phonemic awareness, phonics, spelling, syntax, vocabulary, morphology, text comprehension, written expression, and fluency.
experiences in 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.
Scientific research has shown how children learn to read and how they should be taught. But many educators don't know the science and, in some cases, actively resist it. As a result, millions of kids are being set up to fail.