Mississippi State University CEUs
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Course Description:
This course focuses on effective strategies for English language reading instruction. Learn practical techniques and methods for teaching reading in any ELL environment. Explore key issues related to the successful teaching of reading, such as the role of reading within an ELL curriculum and detailed classroom teaching techniques. Topics include, engagement, motivation, modeling, intensive and extensive reading, vocabulary challenges, comprehension skills, reading rate, reading strategies lesson planning, selecting materials and assessment. This course provides many practical approaches and strategies to improve teaching and learning in the ELL reading environment.
Course Objectives: Participants will
- Assess students’ level of motivation, and use strategies for motivating, engaging, and inspiring students in the reading classroom, and discover how students’ first-language (L1) reading skills impact their second language (L2) proficiency, especially in regard to reading.
- Integrate intensive and extensive reading in their curriculum, working with students to develop their reading rate and become more confident, fluent, and engaged readers.
- Integrate vocabulary teaching into reading curriculum using very valuable high-frequency word lists.
- Design a strong curriculum using the components of effective lesson planning, including how to integrate other language skills along with reading, come up with teaching objectives, sequence your activities, and measure your effectiveness.
- Assess students’ learning through formative and summative testing, and support the students as they prepare for standardized tests like the TOEFL and IELTS.
Course Description, Enrollment and Pricing
Mississippi State University CEUs
All CE Credits Online Courses Have Been Approved For CEUs through Mississippi State University
How are Mississippi State University CEU’s calculated for a CE Credits Online course?
One CEU is defined as ten (10) contact hours of participation in a CE
Credits Online course. Fractions of units can also be awarded (5 hours =
0.5 units).
One university semester unit = 15 contact hours = 1.5 CEUs
Two university semester units = 30 contact hours = 3.0 CEUs
Three university semester units = 45 contact hours = 4.5 CEUs
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
CEUs are available directly from Mississippi State University once you complete your selected CE Credits Online course(s).
Step 1: Participants wanting to receive CEUs from Mississippi State University must obtain a CEU Participant Form from
info@cecreditsonline.org or you may call 888-263-9980
after you have completed your selected CE Credit Online course(s).
Step 2: You will then be required to mail the completed CEU Participant Form and a CE Credits Online Certificate of Completion, which will be available for you to access and print off from your CE Credits Online student homepage, once you have completed your course(s).
Step 3: Mail the completed Mississippi State University CEU Participant Form, CE Credits Online Certificate of Completion and a $20 check to:
Mississippi State University
AOCE - CEUs
P.O. Box 5247
Mississippi State, MS 39762
CEU Fees: One check ($20 per person per course made out to Mississippi State University) should be attached to the form and your certificate of completion when it is returned to the AOCE. The CEU Office will mail the certificates directly to the individuals. There is a $10 charge for duplicates of a CEU certificate once it has been mailed from Mississippi State University.
Contact us at
info@cecreditsonline.org or 888-263-9980 for the CEU Participant Form.
- Start anytime and work at your own convenience
- Available 24/7 from any computer with Internet access
- One-on-one facilitation
Information for Mississippi
Mississippi State Information
Mississippi Certification Renewal Requirements
Teachers with standard certification in Mississippi hold a five-year renewable certificate. These licenses must be renewed every five years with Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or college coursework or by completion of the National Board process earned during the validity period of the license.
Any license issued for less than five years is a provisional license and is non-renewable.
Current requirements for Renewal of a five-year standard license:
Class A:
Ten (10) continuing education units (CEUs) in content or job/skill related area
OR
Three (3) semester hours in content or job/skill related area AND Five (5) continuing education units (CEUs) in content or job/skill related area
OR
Six (6) semester hours in content or job/skill related area
OR
Completion of the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards process
Class AA, AAA or AAAA:
Three (3) semester hours in content or job/skill related area
OR
Five (5) continuing education units (CEUs) in content or job/skill related area
OR
Completion of the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards process
Standard Career Administrator:
Seventy (70) School Executive Management Institute (SEMI) credits
OR
Six (6) hours of coursework
OR
35 SEMI credits AND 3 hrs coursework
Or
Completion of a specialist or doctoral degree in educational administration/leadership
Reinstatement of an Expired License (Policy)
Information on Location of CEUs & Semester Hours
Renewal of License
Referenced from
Mississippi Department of Education
How are Mississippi State University CEU’s calculated for a CE Credits Online course?
One CEU is defined as ten (10) contact hours of participation in a CE Credits Online course. Fractions of units can also be awarded (5 hours = 0.5 units).
One university semester unit = 15 contact hours = 1.5 CEUs
Two university semester units = 30 contact hours = 3.0 CEUs
Three university semester units = 45 contact hours = 4.5 CEUs
Why choose CE Credits Online
How CE Credits Online Satisfies Mississippi Educator Certification Renewal Requirements
University Credits
An educator may request university, post baccalaureate, academic credit(s) from one of CE Credits Online regionally accredited partner universities. CE Credits Online suggests each Mississippi educator contact his/her local professional development coordinator to obtain verification that the proposed activity meets criteria and needs of the teacher's individual Professional Development Plan (PDP), his/her school's professional development plan, and the local school system's professional development plan.
CEUs are available directly from Mississippi State University. Check with your local service center for approval. Participants seeking CEUs from Mississippi State University must obtain a CEU Participant Form from
info@cecreditsonline.org or you may call 888-263-9980. Mail the completed form, your Certificate of Completion and a $20 check to:
Mississippi State University
AOCE - CEUs
P.O. Box 5247
Mississippi State, MS 39762
One check ($20 per person per course made out to Mississippi State University) should be attached to the form when it is returned to the AOCE. The CEU Office will mail the certificates directly to the individuals.
There is a $10 charge for duplicates of a certificate once it has been mailed.
Contact us at
info@cecreditsonline.org or 888-263-9980 for the CEU Participant Form.
For a list of CE Credits Online
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