Standards for Reading Professionals

As the world's leading association of literacy professionals, IRA works diligently to define and describe what reading educators should know and be able to do. For more than two decades, IRA's professional standards have been used by policymakers, university and school administrators, teacher educators, and teachers at all levels to inform pre- and in-service teacher preparation and professional development and to guide professional practice.

What should reading professionals know and be able to do? The fully updated and revisedStandards 2010 identifies the performance criteria necessary to assess competence of reading educators and to design programs to foster this competence.

Two new professional role categories are addressed: (1) the middle and high school content teacher and (2) the middle and high school reading classroom teacher. Also, with the addition of a new diversity standard, Standards 2010 addresses the urgent need for preparing reading professionals to teach today’s increasingly diverse student population.

Standards 2010 also provides matrixes that list each role with the corresponding elements of each standard, to help you view a specific standard’s element and its description across all roles.

© 2010 | 100 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-87207-713-3

http://www.reading.org/General/CurrentResearch/Standards/ProfessionalStandards2010.aspx