Purpose - Educator as a Professional A teacher is an expert in a field of knowledge who can relate his or her wisdom to novices. Graduate programs provide additional professional development experiences for in-service teachers. The course is designed to understand how to diagnose struggling or potential at-risk readers and how to prevent or address reading difficulties.
Diagnostic teaching means that assessment is continuous as the student is learning.
The diagnostic teachers adjust instruction as they teach, not after they have gathered the data. Assessment and instruction goes together to identify the instructional modifications to enable struggling readers to become fluent readers. More specifically, the major emphasis covered in class will be looking at several diagnostic tools to be used in identifying specific reading difficulties and equal emphasis will be on instructional techniques to address specific reading skills. Students will administer various assessments to learners. Students will learn about diagnostic tools by actually administering them to children.