CU Denver teacher prep program wins state approval

tive prep program o ered through East Central BOCES. Both programs were reauthorized on their rst try.

BY ANN SCHIMKE CHALKBEAT COLORADO

e University of Colorado Denver has won full state approval for three teacher preparation program tracks after addressing problems in how it trains aspiring educators to teach children to read.

e State Board of Education unanimously voted to reauthorize the elementary education, special education, and early childhood education programs nearly a year after granting only partial approval because of weaknesses in reading coursework.

State o cials praised the university for improvements that ensure aspiring teachers understand and can apply key components of science-based reading instruction and don’t receive con icting information about how to teach reading.

e decision, which came in June, is the latest step in an ongoing state e ort to hold Colorado’s teacher preparation programs accountable for properly training future educators how to teach reading. e state began cracking down on teacher prep programs — speci cally their approach to reading instruction — in 2018 as part of a broader push by lawmakers, state education o cials, and parents of children with dyslexia to get more students reading at grade level. e state’s outgoing education commissioner Katy Anthes received praise for leading the push for more oversight of reading instruction in teacher prep programs.

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Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 e University of Colorado Denver is one of several teacher prep programs that revamped reading coursework in recent years following poor state reviews. e state’s two largest prep programs, the University of Northern Colorado and Metropolitan State University of Denver, also made changes. e reading coursework overhauls seem to have paid o .

Earlier this week, a national organization gave Colorado major kudos for how its teacher prep programs cover reading instruction, ranking it No. 1 in the country. Just a few years ago, Colorado was in the middle of the pack.

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In that report from the National Council on Teacher Quality, most of the state’s teacher prep programs earned an A or A+ for elementary education, including the University of Colorado Denver’s undergraduate program, Colorado Christian University’s undergraduate program, and the University of Northern Colorado’s undergraduate and graduate programs. e report didn’t analyze reading coursework in alternative teacher prep programs.

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