- Integrated Methods of Literacy, Social Studies and the Arts

Catalog description

Candidates are introduced to contextualized instructional methods and materials for creative and expressive arts, music, literacy, and social studies in diverse and inclusive early childhood settings. Students will examine the multiple ways in which children represent their thinking and how to use these representations to refine teaching practices. Students will be acquainted with a wide variety of materials and literature for young children. Candidates will explore home literacies as tools for teaching multiculturally and in expanding views of literacy learning. Candidates will have experiences in selection and implementation of curricular modifications for emergent bi- and multilingual children and children with developmental delays and disabilities.