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Future Literacy Leaders*

Mentorship opportunities for literacy specialist graduate students.

Who will benefit?

Graduate students seeking a Master of Arts in Education in the Reading Specialist M.A.Ed. Program.

Project Highlights:

20 graduate students will be placed in preschool and elementary residencies in Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, and Wetzel County classrooms to work alongside 10 experienced literacy experts who will also serve as the graduate students’ mentors. Each graduate student will be responsible for case analyses of three to five high-risk students. The mentors will coach the graduate students on the range of assessment instruments, methods of diagnosing individual learning styles and individual impediments to learning and matching instructional strategy to need. Diagnostic assessments and progress monitoring data logs will be used to measure elementary student growth, but since part of the graduate student learning experience is to match assessment to need, no one instrument will be used to evaluate the pilot.

Collaborative Partners: West Liberty University (WLU), Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall and Wetzel County classrooms.

Funded by the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation.