Mar 29, 2024  
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1 
    
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1

EDU 5030 Engaging in Meaningful Collaboration and Learning in the K-2 Literacy Classroom


Lecture: 4 Lab: 0 Practica: 0 Total Credits: 4
This course introduces candidates to pedagogy that supports K-2 achievement in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language for all students. Focus is directed at standards-based instruction, research-based instructional strategies with emphasis on foundational skills, comprehension strategies, explicit instruction, and use of data to support learning as components of building a community of independent learners. Candidates participate in classroom observations that show the integration of knowledge and skills across grade levels. Candidates demonstrate and apply understanding of the elements of literacy critical for purposeful oral, print, and digital communication for grades K-2. Candidates participate in five hours of classroom observations during this course.