CIEE 3120 Literacy and Learning in Inclusive Classrooms

This course provides Teacher Candidates a basis for understanding current research, theory, and practice related to develop the pedagogical content knowledge and conceptual framework for teaching reading and writing skills, including vocabulary, background knowledge, content area research skills, grammar, morphological understanding, and verbal reasoning abilities. Teacher candidates will examine methods to assess development in these key areas and explore how to design lessons to provide learners with opportunities to practice and advance these skills. Teacher candidates will learn how to integrate technology to provide learners with authentic opportunities to research and present their writing using either green screen or stop frame animation programs. Additionally, Teacher Candidates learn how to engage families and communities by organizing a publishing party. This course is part of the second-semester series of education courses, and 25 hours of the course is held in the field, in a K-6 literacy classroom. Teacher candidates plan and implement literacy lessons and reflect on the impact of their instruction in their field setting. Prerequisite(s): CIED 2070 and CIED 3140 and CIEE 3420

Co-requisite(s): CIEE 3290
Credits: 3.0