- (a) To ensure that there are teachers with special training to work with other teachers and with students in order to improve student reading performance, the board shall establish a master reading teacher certificate.
- (b) The holder of a master reading teacher certificate may serve as a reading teacher mentor to other teachers and teach reading to students in pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and grades 1 - 12.
(c) To be eligible for a master reading teacher certificate, a person must:
- (1) hold a reading specialist certificate issued under this title and satisfactorily complete a course of instruction as prescribed under paragraph (2)(B) of this subsection through a preparation program approved by the board and satisfy any other requirement generally applicable to a certificate issued under this title; or
(2) hold a teaching certificate issued under this title and:
- (A) have at least three years of teaching experience;
(B) satisfactorily complete a knowledge-based and skills-based course of instruction through a preparation program approved by the board on the science of teaching children to read that includes training in:
- (i) effective reading instruction techniques, including effective techniques for students whose primary language is a language other than English;
- (ii) identification of dyslexia and related reading disorders and effective reading instruction techniques for students with those disorders; and
- (iii) effective professional peer mentoring techniques;
- (C) satisfactorily complete a field-based practicum prescribed by preparation program approved by the board;
- (D) perform satisfactorily on the master reading teacher certification examination prescribed by the board; and
- (E) satisfy any other requirement generally applicable to a certificate issued under this title.
Source Note:The provisions of this §239.101 adopted to be effective May 22, 2003, 28 TexReg 3950; amended to be effective March 30, 2005, 30 TexReg 1771.