This course will focus on a variety of instructional strategies including sight word acquisition, phonemic awareness skills, decoding strategies, and reading fluency. Well sample emergent guided reading lessons for K2 and explore a variety of quality childrens literature for use in a shared reading setting. Many hands-on literacy center examples will demonstrate independent student behaviors. A Thirty Minute Model will examine components to support struggling readers. Bring one or two literacy station strategies to share with colleagues.
Educational Strategies for the Gifted will provide the opportunity to examine current trends in educational programming for the gifted and talented. Participants will examine curriculum design and development and compare effectiveness of various programming options: gifted and general education school improvement models, differentiation, collaboration, inclusion, cluster grouping, pullout and pull-in models. Classroom strategies to support qualitatively differentiated instruction will be examined, developed, and applied to current practices.
Internet-based course. May be repeated for credit.
This course includes a study of the role of the supervising teacher in the student teaching program. Attention will be given to the development of understandings and skills essential in working effectively with student teachers and in improvement of instruction.
This course will address the psychological, motivational, and linguistic foundations of the reading and writing process including language acquisition, and the histories of reading pedagogy. Students will understand the major components of reading including: comprehension, vocabulary, word identification/sight words, fluency, phonics, and phonemic awareness. Participants will develop and understanding that reading involves highly complex processes by which children learn to speak, read, and write.
Principles of corrective reading instruction, diagnostic instruments and procedures, effective strategies, and materials for correcting reading difficulties in grades K-8 from individual to group and from formal to informal to alternative are covered. Profienciency in prescribing and communicating corrective instructional reading and writing plans and activities to support children's reading and writing development will be studied. Restricted to students admitted to reading licensure/endorsement program.
Principles of corrective reading instruction, diagnostic instruments and procedures, effective strategies, and materials for correcting reading difficulties in grades 5-12 from individual to group and from formal to informal to alternative are covered. Profienciency in prescribing and communicating corrective instructional reading and writing plans and activities to support children's reading and writing development will be studied. Restricted to students admitted to reading licensure/endorsement program.
Development of the basic concepts for the creation of a quality managed classroom. Three critical areas of quality management will be explored: 1) building a quality classroom work, 2) defining quality classroom work, 3) creating quality classroom relationships.
Development of a knowledge base and the skills necessary to help students become high quality self-assessors. Strategies to move from inspectorship management to student self-management will be developed. Principles of Control Theory will be introduced to assist students in taking more effective control of their lives.
The relationships between the teacher and her/his students, between students and their work, and between the students themselves have a direct effect on the amount of learning that takes place. This class focuses on teaching effective problem-solving strategies using the Choice Theory communication model. This model helps students take more responsibility and ownership over their learning and behavior. It also helps them to be more successful in all the areas of their lives.