Applicants for a reading specialist endorsement must hold a currently valid professional teaching license, and complete the following graduate courses, with a minimum 3.25 cumulative GPA in graduate coursework.
In order to meet KSDE licensure guidelines, Reading Specialist candidates must have two years of classroom teaching experience (within six years), complete Master’s degree before applying for a conditional school specialist license and a post-graduation internship before applying for a professional school specialist license. After graduation with the MS degree and receiving the conditional reading specialist license, candidates must secure full-time teaching position and enroll in two semesters of “Reading Specialist Internship.” Upon successful completion of a two-hour internship in each of two semesters, candidates will be eligible to apply for a professional Kansas Reading Specialist license.
| Pre-Requisite Courses (or their equivalent) | |
| TEEL 680 Correction of Reading Disabilities Internship II |
1 hours |
| TEEL 681 Correction of Reading Disabilities II | 3 hours |
| TEEL 865 Teaching Reading Skills | 3 hours |
| Required Courses for Endorsement | |
| TEEL 861 Advanced Literature for Children and Young Adults |
3 hours |
| TEEL 881 Content Area Reading | 3 hours |
| TEEL 882 Trends in Language Arts | 3 hours |
| TEEL 883 Clinical Reading Diagnosis and Remediation |
4 hours |
| TEEL 884 Literacy Development | 3 hours |
| TEEL 885 The School Reading Program (Practicum) |
3 hours |
| TOTAL HOURS REQUIRED FOR LICENSURE | 26 hours |
The pre-requisite course requirement may be met by completion of TEEL 365 Reading and Language Arts Methods, TEEL 481 Correction of Reading Disabilities I, and TEEL 480 Correction of Reading Disabilities Internship I, which are undergraduate courses.