Sec. 21.0481. MASTER READING TEACHER CERTIFICATION. (a) To ensure that there are teachers with special training to work with other teachers and with students in order to improve student reading performance, the board shall establish a master reading teacher certificate.
(b) The board shall issue a master reading teacher certificate to each eligible person.
(c) To be eligible for a master reading teacher certificate, a person must:
(1) hold a reading specialist certificate issued under this subchapter and satisfactorily complete a course of instruction as prescribed under Subdivision (2)(B); or
(2) hold a teaching certificate issued under this subchapter and:
(A) have at least three years of teaching experience;
(B) satisfactorily complete a knowledge-based and skills-based course of instruction on the science of teaching children to read that includes training in:
(i) effective reading instruction techniques, including effective techniques for students whose primary language is a language other than English;
(ii) identification of dyslexia and related reading disorders and effective reading instruction techniques for students with those disorders; and
(iii) effective professional peer mentoring techniques;
(C) perform satisfactorily on the master reading teacher certification examination prescribed by the board; and
(D) satisfy any other requirements prescribed by the board.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 931, Sec. 2, eff. Aug. 30, 1999.
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