This webinar offers an overview of current practices in literacy instruction in light of recent changes to reading standards. The basics of Structured Literacy, including meeting the needs of students (i.e., multilingual learners and students with dyslexic characteristics), will also be addressed.

Presenters

Dr. Cindy Whaley is a Professor of Education at Martin Luther College. She taught for fifteen years in two different congregations in Wisconsin before coming to D/MLC in 1993. Her elementary experiences were in multigrade settings teaching students in various combinations from grades one through six. She currently teaches courses in curriculum and instruction, literacy methods, psychology, and a graduate assessment course in the MLC master’s program. She also oversees MLC’s public school clinical and student teaching placements, the post-baccalaureate licensure program, is the edTPA coordinator, and serves as MLC’s licensure officer.

Dr. Whaley is president of the Southwest Minnesota Reading Council and serves as MLC’s Chief institutional representative for the MN Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (MACTE) and MLC’s Unit Leader for the MN Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB).