Beacon Endorsement Programs
Beacon's online learning programs align well with the National Staff Development Council's promotion of every educator engaging "in effective professional learning every day so every student achieves." Take advantage of the convenience of online learning to grow professionally as you add to your teaching credentials. Check with your local district's staff development office to ensure credit eligibility.

Programs: Reading Endorsement
Watch as real teachers model successful strategies in elementary, middle, and high school settings. Learn what research says, implement new strategies in your classroom, and receive feedback from your course facilitator and colleagues through this course series. Explore the five core areas identified by the National Reading Panel: phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary.

Included in each of the interactive online courses in this series are both instructional components and application activities. Content aligns to the indicators for Florida's K-12 Reading Endorsement.

  Reading Endorsement Course Overview


Programs: REESOL (Reading Endorsement)
Acquire understanding of reading as a process of student engagement in the construction of meaning. Demonstrate substantive knowledge of language structure, cognition, and differentiated instruction for each of the components: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Learn to use reading assessments to screen, diagnose, monitor progress, and determine outcome measures. Actively engage students in results-producing reading strategies.

Educators with Florida's ESOL Endorsement or Certification may qualify to add Reading Endorsement using the REESOL option. These courses fulfill the 100-hour REESOL component and the practicum component of the REESOL requirements for Florida's K-12 Reading Endorsement. Content aligns to Florida's ESOL-to-Reading Crosswalk.

  REESOL (Reading Endorsement) Course Overview


Programs: ESOL Endorsement
Investigate why ESOL students communicate better with their English-speaking peers outside the classroom than when they participate in academics. Learn to take advantage of that difference! Interact with an experienced facilitator as you watch videos, share with colleagues, and initiate effective strategies to help ESOL students in your classroom.

This program targets Florida's Category 1 teachers (language arts and certain reading teachers). Course content aligns with standards for Florida's K-12 ESOL Endorsement. See the ESOL Course Matrix for a correlation of Beacon's courses with Florida's ESOL standards.

  ESOL Endorsement Course Overview


Programs: E-R-T (ESOL Endorsement)
Explore cultural diversity and its implications for you and your students. Determine how to actively engage LEP students as you apply your knowledge of ESOL appropriate methods through various implementation techniques. Discover concepts and principles of applied linguistics and differentiated instruction and learn to use them with your English language learners (ELLs).

Educators with Florida's K-12 Reading Endorsement may qualify to add ESOL Endorsement using the E-R-T option. Beacon's recommended courses for this option align to Florida's Reverse Crosswalk (Reading-to-ESOL). See the E-R-T Program Matrix for a correlation of Beacon's courses with Florida's ESOL standards.

  E-R-T (ESOL Endorsement) Course Overview


Programs: Gifted Endorsement
Explore creativity of the gifted. Discover the nature and needs of the gifted students in your classroom, as you investigate the concept of giftedness in special populations. Consider ways to engage those academically reluctant gifted students.

All courses include both instructional components and application activities that align with the course objectives for the Florida K-12 Gifted Endorsement. Check with your district staff development office for credit eligibility toward Gifted Endorsement.

  Gifted Endorsement Course Overview
 
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