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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The course presents a study of a range of texts written for, by and about children in the 8-12 year old range. Students will learn about the cognitive, social and psychological development typical of this time in children's lives and will consider these changes in relation to children's home, school and community experiences. Students will discuss and prepare to teach these texts in an inclusive manner to a wide range of students through the use of a number of "best practices" for literature instruction.
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3.00 Credits
Study of and written responses to a broad variety of texts written for, by, and about adolescents. Examination of the adolescent experience as it is depicted in this literature, with an emphasis on multicultural education, cultural diversity, and the educational system. Students will discuss and prepare to teach adolescent literature to children from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
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3.00 Credits
Study of and practice in strategies for teaching the process of writing: pre-writing, drafting, revision, editing, and publication. Includes methods of assessing and writing.
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3.00 Credits
Study of philosophical, sociological, and psychological theories of language, linguistics, and learning theory used to explore the nature of the reading process, how people learn to read, how people make meaning from print and other media, and how teachers might help students become more capable readers.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of the writing process as it applies to elementary students. Approaches to teaching writing as a means of learning throughout the elementary-school curriculum.
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3.00 Credits
Practical approaches for helping elementary and middle school students experience and enjoy many forms of poetry. Includes reading, writing and collecting poems.
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3.00 Credits
This course will allow students to gain several constructive meanings of diversity issues that are associated with five major multicultural theories circulating mostly within the U.S. field of education. Additionally, through engaging in the processes of being analytical, critical, and self-reflexive, students will be challenged to grapple with the complexity and controversy of teaching diversity issues. Moreover, students will examine how gender, class, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation issues inform their instructional goals, curriculum planning/implementation, and practices in the teaching of literature, language, and composition in K-12 English Language Arts classrooms.
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3.00 Credits
Workshop designed to immerse students in the processes of preparing high-school students to read literature. Emphasis on pre-reading activities, construction of discussion questions and classroom activities, development of units for teaching literature, and participation in activities. Permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Principles, materials and methods for teaching English. Note: Must be taken before student teaching.
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3.00 Credits
The course serves as a complement to student teaching experiences in English Adolescence Education and examines professional issues that arise in classrooms with emphasis on learner-initiated and shaped professional development.
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