EDUC 371: Literacy Essentials for Elementary Curriculum Design and Assessment

(1 Unit)
Prerequisites: EDUC 195, 196 and permission of department.
Examines relevant research base and theory on early literacy acquisition and learning processes, assessments, and pedagogical approaches. Looks at culturally responsive pedagogy with children from a variety of cultural, economic, ethno-linguistic and racial backgrounds. Emphasizes the motivations, knowledge, practices, and strategies involved in teaching and learning. Requires planning and preparation, engagement in classroom environments, instruction in classroom environments, and formative and summative reflection. Twenty hours of clinical experience focuses on development in each of the domains of the Framework for Teaching, the Standards for Preparation of Teachers of Lower Elementary (PK-3) Education, Early Childhood Quality Standards, and the Michigan Core Teaching Practices. This course is required for all K-12 French, German and Spanish majors. Shanton.