EDU 640 - Literacy and Learning in the Content Area for Adolescent Learners

The focus of the course is to provide teacher candidates with the understanding, skills, and dispositions necessary to prepare adolescent learners to use multiple literacies within content area classrooms. Fundamental to this course is an understanding of language and literacy development in all learners. Teacher candidates will learn how to use a wide array of instructional strategies that integrate all language modes, as well as other tools of learning, into the subject areas they teach. For more effective instruction and learning within inclusive classrooms, course participants will begin to use differential teaching with students who have special needs and with those who are culturally and linguistically diverse. Field experience and Task Stream electronic portfolio are required.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered in Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer