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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SPEE 4230 Language Arts/Social Studies Assessment and Instruction for Diverse Learners K-5


Provides Teacher Candidates with content foundations to intergrate literacy skills with social studies using NJ CCCS, ACEI, and National Social Studies Standards. Integrated unit design is used as Teacher Candidates merge relevant concepts in literacy/language arts, literature and social studies focusing on multicultural and global themes. Performance-based assessments are presented, and instructional strategies that facilitate learning and generalization across content areas are emphasized. Candidates engage in structured decision making to select, plan, implement, and assess instruction, stressing individualized goal setting, adapting/modifying instructional content and teaching/learning strategies for learners with special needs. High and low level technologies are employed to enable all learners to access the general education curriculum while differentiating the levels of difficulty both challenged and gifted students ecounter.
Credits: 3.0