Content Literacy & Assessment

Catalog description

Designed to focus on the development of students' reading, writing, and speaking skills as they are used in specific K-12 and secondary academic content areas, this course uses a backward design model to integrate discussions of assessment with content area literacy. It emphasizes the implementation of both teaching and learning strategies to develop K-12 students' gradual disciplinary language development, fostering their abilities to be independent learners and disciplinary communicators. The course includes research-based pedagogical strategies for teaching linguistically diverse students and teaching students with diverse learning needs. Limited to Education majors.