EDU 560: LANG ARTS INTEGR CULT RESPONS CLSS

This MAT course will address general and specific guidelines for teaching language arts to early childhood students of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Through reading, writing, listening, speaking, and viewing across content areas, teacher candidates will explore content literacy as it relates to the engagement, diversity, and special needs of the academically diverse child, especially the limited English proficient student. This course will examine how to integrate a balanced approach to literacy instruction in the content areas that promotes differentiation of content, instructional practices, and assessment products while encouraging student choice and meeting individual student needs. Topics will include strategies that promote student success in reading and writing across the curriculum. During the course, candidates will have opportunities to plan, implement, and evaluate integrated lesson plans that address differentiation of essential content, instructional practices, and student products. This course will focus heavily on teacher candidate proficiency development and should be taken during the semester before the Clinical Residency experience. Prerequisite: Stage II Admission (Clinical Practice).