I feel more comfortable with myself professionally with regard to adult learning and children's learning. I believe in what I do, I've got a rationale for it now." Reading Recovery teacher leader in training

Any further questions?

If you have any further questions regarding the MA, please email readrec@ioe.ac.uk marking it for the attention of Dr Val Hindmarsh.

Becoming a Reading Recovery teacher leader

"Reflecting, questioning, hypothesising, predicting and problem-solving... suddenly that all made so much more sense." Reading Recovery teacher leader in training.

Becoming a Reading Recovery teacher leader requires commitment to an intensive, full time, year-long professional development programme. It is not something to be undertaken lightly, but will give you new insight, new understanding and a new confidence in your ability to support children and teachers engaged in literacy teaching and learning.

Training
To become a Reading Recovery teacher leader you need to fulfil the required standards (see Standards & Guidelines, page 21) and be appointed by an approved teacher leader provider for a region.  After this you will be able to apply for the Reading Recovery and Literacy Leadership MA.

The course is led by the Reading Recovery national leaders at the Institute of Education, London. It involves full-time study at Master's level with a combination of practical and theoretical elements. You will need to attend the course weekly in London, which may require an overnight stay. But most of the time you will be teaching in a school in your own area, and studying at home.

When does the course run?
 Academic Year 2013/2014:

  • Autumn term: w/c 2 September - 13 December 2013
  • Spring term: w/c 6 January - 4 April 2014 
  • Summer term: w/c 28 April - 27June 2014

The MA will enable you to:

  • learn how to implement Reading Recovery to change the learning trajectory of very low attaining children
  • explore a range of theories of literacy, literacy acquisition and literacy difficulties to develop your own understanding, and learn about theories of adult professional learning in order to help others develop their understanding
  • learn about research in early literacy, how to read and interpret research, and how to use research to add to your knowledge and understanding
  • organise and manage effective literacy implementations in your region

What the MA involves:
The three programme strands are - teaching children, planning and delivering a professional development programme for teachers, and managing an intervention within a local authority, school cluster or area.

The practical elements of the full-time programme include:

  • daily teaching of four children in Reading Recovery
  • learning and applying Reading Recovery teaching procedures
  • communicating the principles of Reading Recovery to teachers and others working in school to support children's literacy learning
  • observing, planning and preparing to lead initial professional development for Reading Recovery teachers.

The theoretical elements include:

  • a thorough and deep analysis of Clay's theory of literacy development
  • two further modules on research methods in literacy and theories of literacy development.

Course fee
For the full MA including the Report module (full-time first year, part-time second year), the fees for 2013/2014 are £9,551 for home and EU students. For a post-graduate diploma (full time one year) the fees for 2013/14 are £8561 for home and EU students.

On successful completion of the MA course, you will be registered at the Institute of Education as a qualified Reading Recovery teacher leader, an internationally recognised qualification.

For more details about becoming a teacher leader see Standards & Guidelines (pages 21-22) and view the full course specification.