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Virginia Tech—Master of Education or Educational Specialist in
Curriculum and Instruction (Reading Specialist)
The Virginia Tech School of Education
will simultaneously offer two degree programs—Educational Specialist in
Curriculum and Instruction (Ed.S.) and Master of Education in Curriculum
and Instruction (MAED)—the Reading Specialist Program at Virginia Tech
Southwest Center, located at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education
Center in Abingdon, beginning in January, 2008.
Students in both programs will take the same schedule of courses over a
4 year period of time, one course each fall, spring, and summer
semester. In the final year, the Master’s students will complete a final
Master’s project and the Educational Specialist students will complete a
final Ed.S. project. Students will prepare these projects while taking
the two final courses on the Role of the Reading Specialist.
This program prepares experienced teachers to earn endorsement in the
Commonwealth of Virginia as Reading Specialists. This K-12 endorsement
enables successful candidates to take positions in schools across the
state. The program has received national recognition from the
National
Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and the
International Reading Association (IRA). This program meets the high
standards set by these professional organizations.
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Participants must be certified in
grades K-12. Certification may be in elementary education, science,
math, social sciences, etc.
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Applicants should have a 3.0 GPA
in the last 60 hours of their undergraduate degree.
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GRE is NOT required.
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Must have three (3) letters of
recommendation.
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Official transcript copies must be
submitted for any institution except VT.
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Applicants should have one (1)
year teaching experience.
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Students should apply online.
The application fee is $45.00. To apply, go to
http://www.vt.edu/apply/.
Select Graduate Studies, Educational Curriculum and Instruction,
MAEDLAHS. If you need assistance or have additional questions,
please contact me at 276-619-4311.
For additional
information about the degree requirements, you may go to the Virginia
Tech Reading Specialist website:
http://www.tandl.vt.edu/reading specialist/index.html.
You may also contact
Mary Alice Barksdale:
mbarksdale@vt.edu; Penny McCallum:
pmccal5@vt.edu (276) 619-4311 or Andrea Clevinger:
aeclevi@vt.edu (276) 619-4310.
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