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Becoming a Reading Recovery teacher

To become a Reading Recovery teacher you need to fulfil the essential requirements, as well as have local authority and school backing. To see if your local authority supports Reading Recovery and to find out which schools will be offering Reading Recovery next year, please contact the teacher leader nearest to you.

Training
Training as a teacher requires participation in an accredited Reading Recovery professional development programme taught by a qualified teacher leader, part-time for a full academic year. The professional development programme is an internationally recognised qualification.

Teachers in training need to:

  • Attend three assessment training sessions to learn how to administer and score Observation Survey, and to identify children for Reading Recovery
  • Attend 17 subsequent initial professional development training sessions, fortnightly
  • Meet all requirements for Reading Recovery teacher training, including completion of specified set tasks and reading, in order to receive certification recorded on the Reading Recovery European register
  • Teach a child at an initial professional development session at least twice during the training year
  • Make and receive one colleague visit (for which training is given)
  • Teach a minimum of four children, in the required age range of five years nine months to six years three months, individually for 30 minutes every day, in a school setting
  • Receive between four to six school visits from a teacher leader for guidance and clarification of appropriate procedures
  • Communicate with school personnel and parents of children
  • Maintain comprehensive records on each child. These would include Observation Survey sheets including a summary sheet and multiple testing sheet, Predictions of Progress, a Roaming Around the Known diary, lesson records, daily running records, records of reading vocabulary and writing vocabulary, a weekly record of book levels
  • Submit monitoring data as specified and requested