Grp Lit Inq Prc:5-12

Catalog description

This course is designed to support candidates in learning the premises of inquiry-based learning and transformative practices within the field of literacy for 5th-12th Grade. While working with a small group of children, candidates will learn how to investigate curriculum, literacy development, planning, resources, and issues of social justice. Candidates are expected to think about peer relationships, work on collaborative teaching and learning processes, and foster children's abilities to help and support each other's literacy learning. Candidates are responsible for organizing effective learning contexts, differentiating instruction, exploring content area literacies, understanding the children's individual development in the context of social interactions, and diversifying the range of genres and materials available for their child. This class focuses on building candidates' strengths in utilizing multiple sign systems, exploring a range of literacies practices, connecting the word and the world, and building family/community relationships. Candidates are required to use a variety of assessment tools learned in other courses such as miscue analysis, writing sample analysis, observation, and note taking to record children's literacy abilities, inform an instructional plan, analyze, and support children's literacy practices. Includes 18 hours practicum.