EDUC 4151

Exclusion(s): Unavailable to students with credit for EDUC4051. This course explores teaching a culturally responsive middle/high school ELA curriculum. Students will come to understand literacy is a multifaceted and complex concept that extends beyond reading and writing to multiple literacies (media, critical, visual, and information). Students will begin their exploration of curriculum documents, including: the strands (speaking and listening, reading and viewing, writing and other ways of representing), the ten general curriculum outcomes and specific curriculum outcomes. We will focus on speaking and listen, reading and viewing. We will begin our study of the importance of assessment and evaluation. Students will also learn about common approaches to instruction, the importance of integration and differentiating instruction. Students will also plan and deliver literacy lessons.