Innovative Learner - Centered Strategies for Student Success.

Catalog description

This course contains the professional body of knowledge necessary for the effective teaching of diverse learners for student success. It focuses on understanding theories and strategies that address the needs of a diverse population that compose today’s classrooms in the public school systems: students with variance in readiness, interest, learning style, and language proficiency. Included in this course will be diversity issues, planning techniques, effective teaching strategies, differentiated instructional and assessment strategies, motivational concepts. It emphasizes the application of sheltered strategies and linguistic scaffolds to meet the needs of linguistically diverse learners. A core principle of the course is the engagement of clinical teachers in skillful pedagogies that advances justice: creating an inclusive and equitable learning environments with a focus on challenging academic and cognitive achievement.