ELE ED 6387: Literacy Acquisition and Learning for Diverse Students

Course Description

This course extends candidate understanding of students' literacy acquisition, development, and learning across the K-12 learning continuum. Emphasis is on development of a teaching philosophy and skills which include maintaining effective literacy learning environments in diverse classrooms, fostering culturally and linguistically responsive classroom communities, understanding social and environmental issues that affect the literacy learning of diverse learners, connecting with students' family and community language and literacy practices, using effective methods and materials to develop engaged and literate students, and fostering students' engagement in literacy activities.