Education: Literacy Coach/Specialist Concentration

Master’s

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Do you desire to be a literacy coach? What about a literacy specialist? Advance your educational career through a Master of Education with a Literacy Coach/Literacy Specialist concentration. 

Why Choose?

A Master of Education with a Literacy Coach/Literacy Specialist concentration will equip you with the coursework you need to advance your career in the public-school setting. 

  • SC Licensure Endorsements: Through this concentration, the Literacy Coach and Literacy Specialist endorsements can be added to your SC teaching license. To be eligible for these endorsements, you must have five years of teaching experience.
  • Gain Practical Experience: Learn from faculty and practitioners with real world experience and be equipped for the classroom through hands on projects and research. 

*Note: Certified teachers who wish to obtain South Carolina’s Literacy Coach and Literacy Specialist endorsements to their current certificate have the responsibility of contacting the state department upon degree completion to ensure completion of any other requirements for certifications and endorsements.

Program Overview

  • Core Courses
    • Principles of Coaching
    • Action Research in Literacy Coaching
    • Administration and Supervision in Literacy
    • Literacy Research
  • Why NGU?

    Research best practices in literacy education, learn theories, and learn from hands on projects in teaching both reading and writing through a Christian worldview at NGU. Through our faith-integrated curriculum, you will not only be equipped academically, but spiritually as well. Dive deep into the field of education as you learn from faculty who are former and current practitioners in the field. 

  • Purpose

    The purpose of this program is to equip students to be successful in their career as a Literacy Coach or Literacy Specialist while integrating a Christian worldview. 

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Ann Aust, EdD

Master’s Program Director, Education
864.977.7086 ann.aust@ngu.edu

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