Sc Ed Lng-Lit

Catalog description

This graduate level course is a core requirement of all secondary education candidates, providing you opportunities to consider essential issues in literacy development and second language acquisition, and to deliberate about tensions within each area. The course is designed to provide a general introduction to these areas, focusing on issues of particular concern to middle and secondary school teachers, from which you will begin to consider how to differentiate your instruction for a diverse population of students. In turn, the course design is intended to help you create the kinds of classrooms our students deserve, using methods to deliver instruction that are aligned to the needs of these learners. Includes 10 hours of fieldwork. 2 hr./wk.; 2 cr.