Training for Teachers & Teacher Leaders

Training for Teacher Leaders Reading Recovery Teacher Leader Training is a year-long, intensive program through The University of Maine, College of Education and Human Development. Teacher Leaders in-training earn twenty-one graduate credits at the post-masters level. Candidates for Teacher Leader training must hold an approved Master's degree and be put forward by a school district that is approved to be a Maine Reading Recovery teacher training site. Teacher Leaders maintain a national Teacher Leader registration and provide Reading Recovery teacher training and continued professional development for trained Reading Recovery teachers.

Maine’s First Group of Teacher Leaders in 1992. Since then, Reading Recovery teachers have served almost 23,400 first-graders in over 275 schools.

Teacher Training

Reading Recovery Teacher Training is year-long and takes place at teacher training sites in Belfast, Benton, Caribou, Central Maine, Enfield, Hancock County, Machias, Midcoast, Old Town, Oxford Hills, South Portland, and Westbrook. Teachers in-training earn six graduate credits which may be applied to a University of Maine Master's program with the permission of an advisor. The training begins with a summer workshop to prepare teachers to administer the Observation Survey of Early Literacy Behaviors.  Classes meet every week for the fall semester and every other week during the spring semester. A key feature of Reading Recovery Teacher Training classes is that participants bring their students and teach them behind a one-way-mirror while the other participants observe and are guided in a discussion of Reading Recovery practices by the Teacher Leader.

For your convenience, click here for an application form for Reading Recovery Teacher Training. It may be printed out, completed and mailed as directed on the form. Please note that Reading Recovery teacher training is only available at a particular site when there are enough participants to create a class.

Please review, as well, this Rubric for Teacher Training.