Benefits
1. Schools have increases pressure to show positive growth and achievement scores in reading. The licensure area provided advanced training in reading. This may assist reading teachers in supporting school districts need to meet or maintain AYP and demonstrate increased performance on reading tests.
2. Schools are required to have highly qualified teachers. The Reading Endorsement added onto a standard teaching license makes teachers highly qualified under NCLB to teach reading.
3. The additional quarter hours are graduate credit and can be used for pay increase and may be a part of a local professional development plan for licensure renewal.
4. Schools receiving funds under Titles 1 and/or II (public, community public, private) within NCLB may require teachers to have advanced training in reading. This endorsement provided the training recognized by the Department of Education in response to many of the requirements of this legislation.
5. For Early Childhood and Middle Childhood teachers, adding an endorsement enables teachers to teach reading in reading programs outside of their licensure area. They will be able to teach and supervise reading staff in levels P-12.
6. The Reading Endorsement is recognized by NCATE as an advanced program and teachers having training in a program leading to an endorsement are considered having "advanced" education beyond their initial licensure area.
